This monograph seeks to determine an optimal solution for the designation and establishment of a Joint Task Force (JTF) headquarters for a contingency situation in an operations other than war (OOTW) environment. The principal aim of this study is...
This monograph examines the problem of decoupling between the commander and joint battle staff of a joint task force, and its antidote, networking. Effective networking between the commander and staff enables both the commander and joint staff to...
The Gulf War provided a glimpse of the possibility for the simultaneous tactical, operational and strategic paralysis of the enemy. Technology coupled with sheer numbers gave the joint force commander the ability to pursue multiple objectives...
The Joint doctrine is defined as "fundamental principles that guide the employment of forces of two or more Services in coordinated action toward a common objective. It will be promulgated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in...
Operation Desert Storm was fought with an immature counter-TBM weapons system, without joint or service AMD doctrine, and without the benefit of joint training. Twelve years later Army AMD forces took to the battlefield once again as part of a...
This research examined the evolution of joint education at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from the days before the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 to today (1999). Analysis led to...
The focus of this monograph is to determine if present joint and service component command and control (C2) doctrine, organization, and support systems ensure adequate interoperability when different services are brought together to fight as part...
Warfare in the modem era will be joint. However, the Armed Forces have been slow to make requisite changes. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 forced change by legislating reforms and ending the internecine...
Successful interdiction operations are critical to the achievement of the Joint Force Commander's operational objectives and can significantly affect the outcome of war. Joint Pub 3-0, Doctrine for Joint Operations, defines interdiction as an...
This monograph examines the question of who should plan and control joint fires beyond the fire support coordination line (FSCL). Since the Gulf War, the Army and Air Force have met at the annual Army-Air Force Warfighter Talks to reconcile...
This monograph examines joint doctrine’s treatment of which component commander (land or air) controls operations between the fire support coordination line and the forward boundary within the Land Component Commander’s area of operations. The...
This study examines whether the Army can meet its joint promotion objectives, while at the same time meeting the joint specialty officer provisions of the Goldwater- Nichols Act. Although the Army has shown some improvement over the past three...
This monograph examines how the corps planning organization transitions in the corps-to-JTF contingency operation scenario. The research question of the monograph is, “Should the corps form the separate planning elements of the J35, future...
As the 21st century emerges, the U.S. will face threats that are more ambiguous and regionally focused than those found in previous years. This monograph seeks to determine if the U.S. military would be better prepared to conduct contingency...
The joint force commander (JFC) and his staff are increasingly challenged with emerging complexities of the 21st Century security environment. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the joint force command environment, trying to assess the...
Joint Publication 3-13, Joint Doctrine for Information Operations was published in 1998 to provide clarity and guidance for conducting joint information operations. This paper seeks to answer if the doctrine proved sufficient at the Joint Task...
Operational fires have played an increasingly vital role in the campaign plans of Joint Force Commanders as technology has increased the ability to identify, target, and engage enemy forces, facilities, and functions throughout the depth of the...
Irregular warfare is emerging as a dominant form of warfare for the future. Yet irregular warfare, at its root, contains many of the characteristics found on today's battlefront in Afghanistan and Iraq and in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). At the...
Presently, evidence shows that Special Operations Forces may not be fully utilized in the joint targeting process. I believe that Special Operations Forces can be employed in new and improved ways in order to better facilitate the Joint Force...
This monograph discusses progress made toward overcoming inherit difficulties of the joint or combined task force headquarters. Since the end of the Second World War the United States Armed Forces have increasingly used either joint or combined...