maximum generation alert

…A staff organization operating under a flag or general officer providing a combatant commander with a full-time, trained joint command and control element integrated into the combatant commander’s staff whose focus is on contingency…

…Maritime forces operating in littoral areas can dominate coastal areas and rapidly generate high intensity offensive power at times and in locations required by JFCs. Maritime forces’ relative freedom of action enables JFCs to position these…

…A general term applied to a combatant commander, subunified commander, or combined task force commander authorized to exercise combatant command (command authority) or operational control over a joint force. Also called CFC. (JP 1–02) command…

…The process also takes into account such things as friendly objectives, CONOPS, ROE, target time constraints, and friendly force capabilities to create five general types of products: › Target nomination lists that achieve desired effects in order…

…Commanders draw on operational art to mitigate the challenges of complexity and uncertainty, leveraging their knowledge, experience, judgment, and intuition to generate a clearer understanding of the conditions needed to focus effort and achieve success. Operational…

…These common physical characteristics are generally discernible to the five senses or through sensor-derived signatures and may shape or influence the selection of the type and number of weapons, the weapon systems, and the methods…

…Effects-based targeting emphasizes that effects are created or generated to achieve objectives. Effects are primarily labeled as lethal or nonlethal, but can also be classified as desired or undesired, intended or unintended, direct or indirect…

…There are three categories of campaigns, which differ generally in scope. (1) Global Campaign. A global campaign is one that requires the accomplishment of military strategic objectives within multiple theaters that extend beyond the AOR of…

…Use the technique of defining the issue to ensure that the question is clear. e@ Step 2. Generate simple chains of events or facts for each hypothesis. Event trees and event mapping are two techniques that…

…Working within this generic phasing construct, the actual phases will vary (e.g., compressed, expanded, or omitted entirely) according to the nature of the operation and the JFC’s decisions. During planning, the JFC establishes conditions…