Sources of Strategic Guidance1.0
Assists SecDef with preparing written policy guidance for the preparation of plans, reviewing plans, and other duties, as directed
USD(P)
The _________ is the President’s principal foreign policy advisor. The __________implements the President’s foreign policies worldwide through DOS and its employees.
Secretary of State
The President, SecDef, and CJCS provide ______ ______ by communicating broad objectives and issue-specific guidance to DoD. It provides the common thread that integrates and synchronizes the planning activities and operations of the JS, CCMDs, Services, joint forces, combat support agencies (CSAs), and other DoD agencies. It provides purpose and focus to the planning for employment of military force. _____ ______ identifies a desired military objective or end state, national-level planning assumptions, and national-level limitations. In addition to previously mentioned documents, additional ______ _______ will emerge as orders or as part of the iterative plans dialogue.
Strategic Direction
_______reflect the inclination to think or behave in a certain manner. _________are not considered deterministic but rather model thoughts or behaviors. _________help identify the range of possibilities that may develop with or without external influence. Once identified, commanders and staffs evaluate the potential of these __________to manifest within the OE.
tendencies
(A) _______ considerations may include,but are not limited to, local and regional governments,international relations, foreign alliances, unofficial power centers (gangs, cartels, multinational organizations, and militias), and political or ethnic grievances and affiliations. (B) ________ considerations may include, but are not limited to: ROE, establishment and location of exclusion zones and no-fly zones, maritime defense zones, territorial waters, excessive maritime claims, and air defense identification zones.
(A) Political and (B) Military
serves as principal military advisor to the President, SecDef, and other members of the NSC and assists the President and SecDef with providing unified strategic direction to the Armed Forces of the United States. This person uses the Joint Strategic Planning System (JSPS) as the formal mechanism to fulfill responsibilities under Title 10, United States Code (USC), Section 153, to maintain a global perspective, conduct assessments, develop the force, and develop military advice for SecDef and the President.
CJCS
The ______________, required by Title 10, USC, Section 113(g), is signed by SecDef and outlines DoD’s approach to implementing the President’s NSS. The ___________ supports the NSS by establishing a set of overarching defense objectives that guide DoD’s security activities and provide direction for the NMS. The ___________ objectives serve as links between military activities and those of other DoD agencies in pursuit of national goals.
National Defense Strategy
The ______ _______ ________is the CJCS’s central strategy document. Title 10, USC, Section 153, directs the CJCS to determine for each even-numbered year whether to prepare a new _____ ______ ______ or update an existing strategy.
National Military Strategy
________is the inherent ability or capacity for the growth or development of a specific interaction or relationship
potential
Considerations may include, but are not limited to, the cultural impact of past wars and military conflicts, territorial claims and disputes, history of colonial exploitation or foreign interference, ethnic or social strife, geographic or regional patterns of religious affiliation, past and present religious conflicts among population groups, religious peculiarities and sensitivities, and the relationship of religion to other sources of social affiliation (e.g., ethnicity, economic class, political ideology, family clans, sects, tribes). The health of the population should also be considered and should include determining the presence of communicable diseases; TIM hazards; locations of epidemics; methods of disease transmission; and the location, type, and extent of environmental pollution (radiation, oil spills, and contamination of drinking water).
social
The President uses the _____ system for national security policy development and decision making. In addition to _____ meetings chaired by the President, the ____ system includes the Principals Committee, Deputies Committee, policy coordination committees, and a dedicated _____ staff. Along with the _____ staff, issue-specific interagency working groups support these higher-level committees.
National Security Counsel
The _________ signed by the President, establishes CCMDs and responsibilities and missions of the CCDRs. The unified command structure identified in the _________is flexible and changes as required to accommodate evolving US national security needs. Title 10, USC, Section 161, tasks the CJCS to conduct a review of the _________ “not less often than every two years” and submit recommended changes to the President through SecDef.
Unified Command Plan
The ______ ______ _____ _____ fulfills the CJCS’s statutory responsibilities in Title 10, USC, Section 153, to assist the President and SecDef in providing for strategic direction to the joint force and implementing the strategic guidance in the NSS, NDS, NMS, and CPG. The _____ ______ _____ _____provides this guidance to CCDRs, Service chiefs, CSAs, and applicable DoD agencies for preparation of plans based on current military capabilities and strategic guidance, as well as contingency planning guidance identified to the CJCS in the CPG. In addition to communicating to the CCMDs’ specific planning guidance, the ______ ______ _____ ______ operationalizes the strategic vision described in the NMS and nests with the strategic direction delineated by the NSS, NDS, and GFMIG. The _____ _______ ______ ______also provides integrated planning guidance and direction for planners to fulfill the CJCS’s role as the global integrator.
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan
Not all interactions and relationships (between tendencies and potentials) support attaining the desired ______ ______ . The desired ______ _______ accounts for tendencies and potentials or other aspects of the OE
End State
Considerations may include, but are not limited to, sources of potable water, transportation means and systems (road and rail networks, canals, and waterways), communications nodes, power production facilities and transmission grids, pipelines, and medical treatment facilities. It is important to assess not only the current state of the threat’s infrastructure but also the impact of projected military operations on infrastructure that may be critical to post-combat recovery.
Infrastructure
The ______is required annually by Title 50, USC, Section 3043. It is prepared by the Executive Branch of the USG for Congress and outlines the major national security concerns of the United States and how the administration plans to address them using all instruments of national power. The document is often purposely general in content, and its implementation by DoD relies on elaborating direction provided in supporting documents (e.g., the NDS and NMS).
National Security Strategy
The _________ _______ _______ signed by the President, fulfills the statutory requirement in Title 10, USC, Section 113. SecDef, with the approval from the President, and with advice from the CJCS, provides written policy guidance on the preparation and review of campaign and contingency plans.
CPG- Contingency Planning Guidance
The NDS, NMS, and JSCP describe DoD’s broad strategic themes for _________ __________ and posture that are coordinated through USTRANSCOM’s horizontal and vertical synchronization of global distribution planning. As a “plan of plans,” some CCPs include regional country plans, posture plans, and TDPs that facilitate synchronization of resources, authorities, processes, and timelines to favorably affect conditions within the CCDRs’ AORs. _______ _________ establishes the requirement for geographic CCDRs to submit TDPs annually to support campaign and contingency plans. Distribution plans support GCPs by interfacing with the relevant posture plans to support strategic lift, infrastructure, distribution enablers, agreements, policies, processes, and information systems.
Global Distribution
_____ _____ _____ involves understanding and isolating the root causes of the issue that are the essence of a complex, ill-defined problem. _____ ______ _____begins with a review of the tendencies and potentials of the relevant actors and identifying the relationships and interactions among their respective desired conditions and objectives.
Defining the problem
Considerations should focus on the sources and means through which information reaches the general population in the AOI. These may include official sources such as government controlled news media, unofficial sources such as local independent news media, unauthorized internal sources such as underground radio and newspapers, and third-party sources such as the international press and various social media outlets. Analysts should also focus on the means by which information is disseminated to, and shared within, the threat’s leadership structure. The credibility of various media and information sources, as perceived by the groups involved, is critical.
Information
The _______ is the lead US foreign affairs agency within the Executive Branch and the lead institution for the conduct of American diplomacy.
Department of State
The ___________ is the primary system the CJCS uses to execute statutory responsibilities assigned by Title 10, USC, Section 153. The _________ enables the CJCS to conduct assessments; provide military advice to the President, SecDef, NSC, and Homeland Security Council; and assist the President and SecDef in providing strategic direction to the Armed Forces of the United States. The NMS and _________are core strategic guidance documents the CJCS uses to augment and amplify other strategic documents (e.g., UCP, CPG, GFMIG) and provide direction and policy essential to implementation of the NSS. Other elements of ___________, such as the CJCS risk assessment, the Joint Force Readiness Review, and the annual joint assessment (AJA), inform decision making and identify new contingencies that may warrant planning and the commitment of resources. Figure II-1 illustrates these relationships.
Joint Strategic Planning System
The ___________ integrates complementary policy and guidance on directed readiness, assignment, allocation, apportionment, and assessment into a single authoritative GFM document in support of DoD strategic guidance. It provides required procedures prescribed by SecDef in accordance with Title 10, USC, Section 162, to assign and allocate forces. These processes are applied within the force management and force planning constructs to better support resource-informed planning and enable the force to be dynamically employed, while allowing senior decision makers to quickly and accurately assess the impact and risk of proposed changes in force assignment, apportionment, and allocation. For detailed strategic guidance see the current_______________
GFMIG- Global Force Management Integration Guidance
The ______ ______ identifies the areas that, when successfully acted upon, will help transform the existing condition into the desired condition.
Problem Statement
Considerations may include, but are not limited to, the strength/weakness of the threat’s monetary elements (e.g., currency or electronic transfers), the financial systems (e.g., banking or informal financial institutions), rate of inflation, key commercial areas, the labor market, laws and regulations impacting business, work permit/visa requirements, and strength of trade unions.
Economic