Joint Urban Operations

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Joint Urban Operations MECC Working Group 12
October 2005
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The Requirement
Improve leader development by including and
improving instruction on Joint Urban Operations
within Joint and Service professional military
education curricula JROCM 051-05, 11 March 2005
While ever ready to respond to major combat
operations, the future holds a greater likelihood
of irregular wars fought in urban environments,
against thinking enemies using asymmetric
tactics. Thus, we will adapt to succeed in these
environments. General M.W. Hagee
The battlefield is one that is much more
complex than anything we have experienced in our
recent history. The demands on our leadership an
appreciation for the fact that the civilian
population is a part of the environment, a part
of the battlefield on which we fightand they
have a dramatic impact on our ability to
accomplish our mission. General William S.
Wallace
Joint Urban Operations Defined All joint
operations planned and conducted across the range
of military operations on, or against objectives
within a topographical complex and its adjacent
natural terrain where manmade construction or
density of noncombatants are dominant features.
(Joint Publication 3.06 Doctrine for Joint Urban
Operations, 16 September 2002)
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The Background

• Sept 2002 USJFCOM designated as the Executive
  Agent for Joint Urban Operations.
• Jun 2003 Joint Urban Operations Office
  established to execute EA responsibilities.
• Oct 2004 Joint Urban Operations Training Branch
  established.
• JUO Training Working Group chartered.
• 11 Mar 2005 JROCM 051-05 endorsing JUO DCR.
• 31 Aug 2005 JUO Draft Training Strategy concept
  endorsed by JUO Working Group.

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The JUO Training Strategy

• Institutes a balanced approach that recognizes
  the need to improve leader development, maximize
  live, virtual, and constructive urban training,
  and create a holistic assessment program to meet
  the requirements of urban operations while also
  ensuring the training community remains "good
  stewards" of the training dollar.
• Incorporates DoD wide initiatives, lessons
  learned, and programs.
• Leverages the Executive Agent and Training
  Transformation Capabilities.
• Five Focused Enablers Strategy Integration,
  Venue Integration, a Fusion Center, and an
  Effects and Assessment Integration, and
  Knowledge Integration.

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Knowledge Integration

• The knowledge integration function will develop
  and produce appropriate level JUO focused
  curriculum modules. The products will range from
  training technique and procedure information,
  joint distance learning courseware, joint
  professional military education elective and core
  curriculum academics, and academic training
  packages. The primary focus of the knowledge
  integration function will be at the operational
  level.

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Framework of Modules

• Derived from Joint doctrine (JP 3.06).
• Linked to JUO Joint Task Article 1.2.8.
• Linked to OPMEP.
• Focused at the operational level .
• Incorporates T2 tenets.
• JPME Continuum JPME Phase I and II.
• Linked to all Intermediate and Senior Learning
  Areas.
• Currently presented as a Joint elective at Army
  CGSC.
• Introduced as a potential elective at Marine
  Corps Command and Staff College.
• Previously an elective at Naval War College.
• Provides module options to match specific
  learning objectives, measures of behavior, and
  methodology.

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Course Objective

• To provide the current or prospective Joint
  Staff Officer with an understanding and
  appreciation for Joint Urban Operations focused
  from WWII to the present. By examining critical
  issues and fundamentals of Joint Urban Operations
  through case studies, lectures, and practical
  exercises the student will
• Examine the fundamental construct of Joint Urban
  Operations.
• Determine the nature and challenges of
  operations in the urban environment.
• Examine the fundamentals for planning and
  conducting Joint Urban Operations.
• Analyze the special considerations of non
  combatants and critical infrastructure.
• Capitalize on commonalities with U.S. domestic
  urban operations.
• Understand the fundamentals of governing.

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Proposed Course Modules

• Introduction to Urban Operations
• Effects Based Approach
• Information Operations
• Modern Irregular Warfare Concepts
• Full Spectrum Operations
• Social Systems and Population Dynamics
• Homeland Defense An Urban Perspective
• Case Study JTF Katrina
• Case Study Stalingrad 1943
• Case Study Dominican Republic (Operation Power
  Pack 1965)
• Case Study Somalia Mogadishu, Oct 3-4 1993
• Case Study OIF I The Road to Baghdad
• Case Study OIF II Stability Operations
• Future Concepts
• Practical Exercises

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Way Ahead

• Expand the audience.
• Provide support to the academic community.
• Continuously develop and refine the course
  trough the integration of lessons learned, new
  concepts, and best practices into the course.
• Partnership with JKDDC.