JFCOM Command Briefing

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JFCOMs Joint Operating Environment (JOE) The
Chairmans Capstone Concept for Joint Operations
(CCJO)
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Maj Gen William Rajczak Deputy Director, Joint
Capability Development, USJFCOM
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Overview

• JOE
• Provides context for the future Joint Force the
  demand signals
• CCJO
• Articulates the Chairmans vision for how the
  future Joint Force will operate to meet that
  demand
• Primary purpose is to lead force development and
  employment by
• Establishing a common framework
• Describing a future operating environment
• Describing future joint operations
• Establishing a conceptual foundation
• Guiding experimentation

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JOE The Demand Signal

• Speculative in nature not a policy document
• We wont get it all right but we must do it
• Get it more right than potential enemies
• Revised annually
• Reviews the trends that will create change
• Trends combine in different ways to form
  operational contexts that will pose future
  challenges
• Contexts lead to implications, or demands for the
  Joint Force
• The starting point for the CCJO

The JOE is a narrative for decision-makers that
describes the threats and opportunities for the
Joint Force in the future
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JOE Much will Remain the Same

• War is a human endeavor
• War starts as an extension of policy
• Once begun, passion and chance can dominate
  hard to predict
• The adversary is a learning, adapting force
• Our adversaries will continue to target our
  vulnerabilities
• The enemy will likely be able to adapt faster
  than we can, unless we change our processes
• Friction is unavoidable technology can not
  erase it
• Surprise will continue to be a dominant factor
• Build a force such that no surprise is fatal and
  we will have few regrets

Requires a force that is adaptable, agile, and
resilient
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JOE Much will Change

• Increasing urbanization hotbeds for disease,
  failure of governance, and humanitarian crises
• Cooperation and competition among conventional
  powers caused by ever scarcer resources and the
  need to engage failing and pressured states
• Threat of unconventional powers some with the
  power of states but lacking sovereignty and
  accountability
• Proliferation of WMD especially nuclear and Bio
• Proliferation of advanced technology cheaper,
  more capable. Empowers smaller groups and
  creates a contested Battle of Narratives
  between states and non-states groups

Future Environments characterized by uncertainty,
complexity, persistent conflict, and surprise
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Trends Influencing the Worlds Security

• Demographics
• Globalization
• Economics
• Energy
• Food
• Water
• Climate change and natural disasters
• Pandemics
• Cyber
• Space

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The Contextual World

• Competition and cooperation among conventional
  powers
• Potential challenges and threats
• China
• Russia
• The Pacific and Indian Oceans
• Europe
• Central and South America
• Africa
• The center of instability The Middle East and
  Central Asia
• Weak and failing states
• The threats of unconventional power
• The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
• Technology
• The battle of narratives
• Urbanization

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The Implications for the Joint Force

• War in the twenty-first century
• Preparing for war
• The conduct of military operations in the
  twenty-first century
• Professional military education
• Some leading questions
• Defense economics and acquisition policies
• The personnel system

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CCJOThe Joint Force as an Instrument of Policy

• The fundamental purpose of military power is
• To deter or wage war in support of national
  policy
• To help shape the international political
  environment
• Must provide political leaders a wider range of
  options than dominance in combat
• Only one element of national power will rarely
  be able to succeed alone

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CCJO National Security Challenges

• Broad strategic challenges
• Win the Nations wars
• Deter aggression
• Develop cooperative security
• Defend the homeland
• Respond to civil crises
• These are national challenges - requiring
  application all elements of national power

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CCJOIntegration and Adaptation of Joint
Operations

• The central thesis is comprised of three
  interrelated ideas
• Address each situation on its own terms, in its
  unique political and strategic context, rather
  than fitting to preferred operating methods
• Conduct and integrate some combination of combat,
  security, engagement, and relief and
  reconstruction activities
• Assess the results of operations explicitly in
  relation to expectations and then modify both the
  understanding of the situation and subsequent
  operations accordingly

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CCJO Categories of Military Activity

• Joint forces are designed, organized, equipped,
  and trained to execute one or more of four broad
  types of military activities in varying
  combination
• Combat to defeat armed enemies regular,
  irregular, or both
• Security to protect and control populations
  goal is to reduce violence to a level manageable
  by law enforcement authorities
• Engagement to cooperate with, others to enhance
  stability, prevent crises, and enable other
  operations
• Relief and reconstruction to help restore civil
  services in the wake of combat operations, a
  breakdown of civil order, or a natural disaster
• Any mission that the joint force is assigned will
  most likely consist of some combination of these
  activities

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CCJO Common Operating Precepts

• Several common precepts underlie successful
  future joint operations
• Unity of effort with other government and
  multinational partners
• Plan and manage operational transitions
• Focus on objectives leading to broad, enduring
  results
• Combine capabilities to maximize complementary
  effects
• Avoid complexity without advantage
• Drive synergy to lowest echelon
• Operate indirectly through partners
• Ensure freedom of action
• Maintain flexibility
• Influence perceptions

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CCJO Implications

• Implications for the way the Services organize,
  man, train, and equip the Joint Force
• Build a balanced and versatile joint force
• Maintain capability to project, sustain military
  power over global distances
• Institute ways to prepare general-purpose forces
  quickly for new mission sets
• Markedly improve the ability to integrate with
  U.S. agencies, other partners
• Create general-purpose forces capable of
  operating independently at increasingly lower
  echelons
• Develop joint commanders who are masters of
  operational art
• Improve Service and institutional adaptability to
  deal with rapid change

Creating greater adaptability and versatility to
cope with uncertainty, complexity rapid change.
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CCJO Concept Overview

• Security Challenges
• Win the nations wars
• Deter potential adversaries
• Develop cooperative security
• Defend the homeland
• Respond to civil crises

Problem Statement Must be prepared to deal with
wide variety of complex challenges anywhere in
the world, on short notice, for indeterminate
duration, in response to unexpected events
Instrument of Policy Joint Force only one element
of national power must provide range of
competencies.

• Integration and Adaptation of Joint Operations
• Address each unique situation on its own terms
• Conduct and integrate combination of activities
• Assess results, modify understanding and
  subsequent operations

• Precepts of Future Joint Operations
• Unity of effort with IA and MN partners
• Plan and manage operational transitions
• Focus on objectives leading to broad, enduring
  results
• Combine capabilities to max complementary effects
• Avoid complexity without advantage
• Drive synergy to lowest echelon
• Operate indirectly through partners
• Ensure freedom of action
• Maintain flexibility
• Influence perceptions

• Military Activities
• Combat
• Security
• Engagement
• Relief and Reconstruction

Implications for creating greater adaptability
and versatility to cope with uncertainty,
complexity unforeseeable change.
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Questions/Discussion
Download the JOE at External
http//www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2008/JO
E2008.pdf Internal https//us.jfcom.mil/sites/J5
/j59/default.aspx (Joint Futures
Group) Download the CCJO at http//www.jfcom.mil
/newslink/storyarchive/2009/CCJO_2009.pdf