Joint Operations Paper By Wes Whittington Applied Joint Warfare 16 Oct 2013 Air Command and Staff College Distance Learning Maxwell AFB‚ AL ABSTRACT George Santayana wrote‚ "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".1 He is also attributed to saying that “Only the dead have seen the end of war." I believe most of us have heard of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM‚ but how many of us have heard of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM – PHILIPPINES (OEF-P)? Committing forces to achieve
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Doctrine foundation 1. It is officially certified beliefs‚ warfighting principles‚ and terminology that describes and guides the proper use of air and space forces in military operations. 2. Doctrine forms the way to organizes‚ trains‚ and Equips. It consists of the basic principles by which military forces guide their actions in support of national objectives. It is gathering of knowledge gained primarily from the study and analysis of experience. 3. Unity of command is vital in employing air
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COMPREHENSIVE OPERATIONS: THE FUTURE OF MODERN MILITARIES Introduction (250) Future of Warfare (200) Yet conflict today has evolved dramatically from the conventional “big war” environment of the ALB world of the 1980s. Rather than a nation-state adversary armed with conventional military capabilities that very much mirrored our own‚ today we are dealing with a world of asymmetrical threats—fighting shadowy adversaries often operating at the murky nexus of terrorism‚ transnational crime
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The Roman military was the first successful professional full time military‚ which was partly because the Roman generals paid an immense attention to detail. “Roman generals paid close attention to camp layouts‚ soldier’s equipment and most crucially‚ logistics. Often it was a the details that gave the Romans the edge‚ the depth of a ditch dug around a camp or having a warm breakfast before a battle were all considerations made by Roman commanders” (“The Roman Military”). Legionaries typically
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WORKING OVERVIEW Jobs in the Military vary in type of work and responsibility‚ yet each is essential to accomplishing the overall mission of defending our country. In this section‚ explore the different types of career opportunities available to service members‚ learn about the compensation they can expect to receive‚ find out how to transfer careers to the civilian sector and more. Our Today’s Military overview pages show the various stages of a military career‚ from the joining process to training
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The average civilian or recruit coming into the Army often misunderstands the meaning of the words military discipline. He thinks of them as being connected with punishments or reprimands which may result from the violation of some military law or regulation. Actually‚ discipline should not be something new to you for you have been disciplined all of your life. You were being disciplined at home and in school when you were taught obedience to your parents and teachers‚ and respect for the rights
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What is the definition of Full Spectrum Operation? Full spectrum operations require continuous‚ simultaneous combinations of offensive‚ defensive‚ and stability or civil support tasks. Military forces seek to seize‚ retain‚ and exploit the initiative and achieve decisive results through combinations of four elements: offense‚ defence‚ and stability or civil support simultaneously as part of an interdependent joint force to seize‚ retain‚ and exploit the initiative‚ accepting prudent risk to create
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Military Psychology Military psychology is a broad market of psychology in which virtually any and all subfields of psychology where the lessons of personality‚ organizational and abnormal psychology among others are applied to the needs or desires of military planners and strategists. Reasons for their application may be immediate or sustained. The application of psychological research or theory to the military can be used to analyze either enemy or friendly forces‚ exemplified by perfecting an
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Through the years‚ military forces are being employed in Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW). For an operational commander and staff‚ these operations present significant challenges: in many areas they are relatively unfamiliar‚ complex‚ involve a wide variety of agencies and are often protracted in duration. The term MOOTW describes a range of operations too diverse to analyze effectively. This reflective essay focuses on a particular form of MOOTW‚ in this case Humanitarian Assistance (HA)
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purpose of this essay is to further my knowledge of the Army NCO support channel‚ chain of command and why we as Soldiers use them. It is also to inform the parties that may be what I feel loyalty‚ dedicated service and also my interpretation of Military bearing and Discipline. I am explaining the importance of obeying a lawful order from an NCO and performing that order in a timely manner. The NCO support channel is designed to be subordinate to and supportive of the chain of command. The NCO support
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