JOINT

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JOINT OPERATIONS
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• BOTTOM LINE
• The USAF doesnt operate alone. It takes all
  military services working together to
  successfully execute win Americas wars

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JOINT OPERATIONS

• THE WORLD SITUATION
• DEFINE JOINT OPERATIONS
• HISTORY OF JOINT OPERATIONS
• JOINT DOCTRINE
• RANGE OF OPERATIONS
• TYPES OF JOINT OPERATIONS

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World Situation

• Regional instability
• WMD proliferation
• Transnational dangers ethnic/economic
• Dangers to democracy and reform
• Defense budget
• Force structure
• Military operational requirements

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JOINT OPERATIONS

• The integrated and synchronized application of
  all appropriate capabilities. Joint warfare is
  team warfare.

Must have two or more services
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JOINT WARFARE Battle Of Yorktown, 1781

• French Naval Blockade

• American Ground Forces

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JOINT WARFARE Battle Of Vicksburg, 1863

• Control Of The Mississippi River
• Navy, Marine, Army Assault
• 45 Day Siege
• Teamwork

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JOINT WARFARE Operation Overlord, 1944

• Air Superiority
• Sea Superiority
• Special Operations
• Leadership
• Continued

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JOINT WARFARE Operation Overlord

• Leadership
• Eisenhower
• Complete Autonomy
• 6,000 ships, 13,000 aircraft, 250,000 personnel
  from all branches (Coast Guard)

• Von Rundstedt
• No autonomy
• No control over armor, air defenses, coastal
  artillery

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JOINT WARFARE Desert Storm

• Principles of War
• Included air. land, sea forces

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• "You may fly over a land forever you may bomb
  it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of
  life - but if you desire to defend it, protect
  it, and keep it for civilization, you must do
  this on the ground, the way the Roman legions
  did, by putting your young men into the mud."
• - T. R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War

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JOINT WARFARE Afghanistan Enduring Freedom

• A new kind of warfare
• Network centric warfare

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JOINT DOCTRINE

• Provides A Common Perspective From Which To Plan
  And Operate Shapes The Way We Think And Train
  For War
• Indication Of Things That Are Right Or Wrong
• Not a checklist that will guarantee military
  victory

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JOINT DOCTRINE National Security Act Of 1947

• Created
• DoD
• Secretary Of Defense
• Budget process
• Joint Chiefs Of Staff
• Unified Specified Commands

- National Security Council
- Central Intelligence Agency
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JOINT DOCTRINE Reorganization Act Of 1958

• Defined The Chain Of Command
• From President to the services
• Pres-SECDEF-Unified CC- Component CC
• Unified Commands Increased Their Operational
  Control (OPCON) of Resources

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JOINT DOCTRINE Goldwater-Nichols
Reorganization Act Of 1986

• STRENGTHENED Role Of The Chairman Of The Joint
  Chiefs
• Made the principal military advisor to the
  President and Secretary of Defense

• Mandated JOINT DOCTRINE

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JOINT DOCTRINE Goldwater-Nichols
Reorganization Act Of 1986

• Required officers to serve in a joint billet
  before promotion to flag rank

• Two Separate Chains Of Command
• Operational
• Communicative

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JOINT DOCTRINE Goldwater-Nichols
Reorganization Act Of 1986

• Operational Chain Of Command
• Unified Combatant Commander in charge of all
  services
• Component commanders responsible for their piece
• The difficult task is determining which service
  to use at a particular time and place

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JOINT DOCTRINE Goldwater-Nichols
Reorganization Act Of 1986

• Communicative Chain Of Command
• JCS manage day to day operations and prepare for
  the day that the operation may occur
• JCS maintains no operational control

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Operational Chain
President Secretary of Defense Unified
Commander
President
Secretary of Defense
Unified Commander
Army
Navy
Air Force
Special Operations
Army Navy Air Force
Special Ops Marines
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RANGE OF OPERATIONS
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Natural Part of War
TIME
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Types of OperationsMilitary engagement, Security
Operations, and Deterrence

• Arms Control and Disarmament
• Combating Terrorism
• Counterdrug Operations
• Enforcement of Sanctions
• Freedom of Navigation

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Types of OperationsMilitary engagement, Security
Operations, and Deterrence

• Nation Assistance
• Protection of Shipping
• Show of Force
• Support to Insurgency

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Types of OperationsCrisis response and
contingency operations

• Noncombat Evacuation Operations
• Peace Operations
• Foreign Humanitarian Assistance
• Recovery Operations
• Consequence Management

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Types of OperationsCrisis response and
contingency operations

• Strikes and Raids
• Support to Homeland Security

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Types of Operations

• Major Operations or Campaigns
• Offensive
• Defensive
• Stability

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JOINT OPERATIONS

• THE WORLD SITUATION
• DEFINE JOINT OPERATIONS
• HISTORY OF JOINT OPERATIONS
• JOINT DOCTRINE
• RANGE OF OPERATIONS
• TYPES OF JOINT OPERATIONS

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