The Integration of Stability Operations and Irregular Warfare in JFSC Curricula

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Joint Forces Staff College National Defense
University
The Integration of Stability Operations and
Irregular Warfare in JFSC Curricula
Jon Stull TXC Quarterly Meeting Ft. McNair,
Washington, D.C. 26-28 June 2007
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JFSC Mission

• To educate national security leaders
• in joint, multinational, and interagency
• operational-level planning and warfighting, to
  instill a primary commitment to joint,
  multinational, and interagency teamwork,
  attitudes, and perspectives..

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Joint Forces Staff CollegeOrganization
Joint education, but not JPME
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JFSC 2007 Master Activity Schedule
Revised 3/30/07
January
February
August
September
October
July
April
May
June
JCWS Class 07-2
JCWS Class 07-3
JCWS Class 08-1
JCWS Class 07-4
J T C
J T C
J T C
J T C
210/30/15 Student Mix 10 Apr 15 Jun
210/30/15 Student Mix 10 Sep 16 Nov
210/30/15 Student Mix 16 Jan 23 Mar
210/30/15 Student Mix 25 Jun 31 Aug
JAWS Class 07
JAWS Class 08
Started 24 JULY 2006
Ends 15 JUNE 2007
Starts 23 July 2007
Ends 13 JUNE 2008
(30 students)
(39 students)
(Gettysburg trip)
(DC South trips)
(West trip)
(Spring Break)
AJPME 08-1 2 Jan 5 Oct 2007 46
students
1
F2F2
F2F2
1
AJPME 08-2 5 Feb 9 Nov 2007 46
students
AJPME 08-3 30 Apr 1 Feb 2008 46
students
1
AJPME 08-4 14 May 15 Feb 2008 46
students
1
AJPME 07-3
F2F2
1
AJPME 08-5 14 May 15 Feb 2008 46
students
AJPME 07-5 40 students
F2F2
AJPME 08-6 23 July 25 April 2008
1
F2F2
AJPME 07-6 40 students
AJPME 08-7 6 Aug 9 May 2008
1
F2F2
AJPME 07-7 40 students
AJPME 08-8 3 Sep 13 June 2008
1
F2F2
AJPME 07-8 40 students
AJPME 08-9
1
F2F2
AJPME 07-9 40 students
08-10
F2F2
AJPME 07-10 40 students
1
JC4I 24 students
07-3
07-4
07-5
07-6
07-7
08-1
08-2
07-7
08-1
16 Jan 2 Feb
16 Apr 4 May
4 22 Jun
13 - 24 Aug
26 Feb 16 Mar
15 Oct - 2 Nov
26 Nov 14 Dec
NSA
STRATCOM
PACOM
JAWS
NOPC
JIOOC 28 students
MTT
MTT
MTT
MTT
MTT
08-1
07-2
07-3
1923 Mar
1216 Mar
26 Feb 2 Mar
25-29 Jun
26-30 Nov
11-15 Dec
21-25 May
JIOPC 24 students
22 Jan 16 Feb
16 Apr 12 May
20 Aug 15 Sep
9 Jul 4 Aug
15 Oct 10 Nov
HLSPC
07-3
07-5
27-31 Aug
29 Jan 2 Feb
2-6 Apr
11-15 Jun
JIMPC
29-31 Oct
22 26 Jan
10 14 Sep
18 22 Jun
26 30 Mar
Hofheimer Lecture- 14 Jun
Other
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JCWS Overview
Four ten-week courses of 250-300 mid-grade
officers per year

• Total number of hours for core curriculum 244
• Strategy (STR) (Lessons / Hours / of block
  total) 32
• Direct (2 / 5.5 / 17) Related (6 / 15 /
  47)
• Operational Capabilities and Functions (OCF)
  55
• Direct (10 / 16.5 / 29) Related (5 / 8 /
  15)
• Joint Operational Planning Process (JPP) 60
• Direct (3 / 13.5 / 23) Related (10 / 42 /
  70)
• Contemporary Operating Environment (COE) 12
• Direct (4 / 8 / 75) Related (2 / 4 / 25)
• War Games and Simulations (EX) 60
• Direct 40 Related 20

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JAWS Overview
Eleven-month graduate program for 40 mid-grade
officers

• Total number of hours for core curriculum 965
• Theory of War (TH) (Lessons /Hours/ of block
  total) 152
• Direct (6 / 19.5 / 13) Related (11 / 63 /
  41)
• Strategy (ST) 166
• Direct (3 / 36 / 22) Related (9 / 80 / 48)
• Operational Planning (OP) 511
• Direct (13 / 165 / 32) Related (23 / 180 /
  35)

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JAWS Research

• (Approximately a third dealt with SSRT Ops or
  Irregular Warfare)
• Titles from student theses
• U.S. Organization and Strategy for Combating
  Terrorism
• Developing a Whole-of-Government Approach to
  Complex Problems
• Evolution of Phase Zero Shaping and Interagency
  Integration in Combatant Commander Campaign
  Planning
• Elements of the Iraqi Insurgency and the Role of
  Security for Achieving Victory in Iraq
• Eyes to See The Foothold of Jihadi Underpinnings
  
• Pursuing Strateegic Goals, Resources, Technology,
  Political Will, and the Global War on Terrorism
• U.S. Freedom Agenda in the Middle East
• Decisive Point in the War on Terrorism

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JAWS/JCWS Electives

• Total number of hours for elective curriculum 24
• Each of the nine unified commands have an
  elective
• Command and Control of U.S. Forces
• Insurgency and Counterinsurgency Warfare
• Islam and Islamic Radicalism
• NATO, the Combined Command and Issues
• Homeland Security, Transformation and the War
  Against Terror
• Operational Fires
• Joint C4I
• United Nations and the 21st Century
• Just War and Jihad Ethics in an Age of
  Uncertainty
• Joint Intelligence
• Joint Logistics
• Joint Personnel Recovery
• Case Studies in Interagency and International
  Operations
• Campaigning and the Operational Level of War

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Interagency Short-Courses

• Homeland Security Planners Course (HLSPC)
• Focus Interagency planning and coordination for
  homeland security and defense
• Format 20-person seminars x 4 plus MTTs
• Content National Strategies, DoD Processes,
  Players and Capabilities, NIMS/ICS
  implementation, Exercises
• Joint Interagency Multinational Planners Course
  (JIMPC)
• Focus Interagency planning for international
  response to complex contingencies
• Format 25-30 person seminars x 5
• Content National Policy, Transforming
  Interagency Processes Organizations, Players
  and Perspectives, Nexus of POL/MIL Planning,
  JIACG Simulation

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Participation Non-DoD

• Total of Class
• JCWS 72 7.5
• JAWS 7 18
• HLSPC 60 38
• JIMPC 46 31

Agencies State DHS ICE FEMA NSA DIA DNI DOT Treasu
ry USCG FBI USAID ATC NORAD First Responders
Includes international students
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Joint Forces Staff College

• SUMMARY
• Four Schools / 8 courses
• OPMEP and SAEs direct programs
• Programs focus on operational-level
• Create planners through practice

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Back-up Slides
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JCWS Syllabus
Four ten-week courses of 250-300 mid-grade
officers per year

• Lsn Title Hours Method
• STR 02 Strategic Guidance 3 GD
• STR 03 Interagency Process 2 GS
• STR 04 Military Strategic Guidance 2
  GD
• STR 06 Strategic Direction for the Combatant
  Commander 2 IL/GD
• STR 09 Theater Strategy 3 GD/PE
• STR 10 War on Terrorism Case Studies
  3.5 SL-GD
• STR 11 Security Cooperation 3 GD/PE
• STR 12 Ambassador 2 IL
• OCF 06 Operational Art 2 CS/PE
• OCF 07 Effects Based Approach 2 GD
• OCF 10 Operational Information Operations
  2.5 GD/PE
• OCF 14 Rules of Engagement 1.5 GS
• OCF 15 Operational Command and Control 2
  GD
• OCF 16 Force Protection 2 GD

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JCWS Syllabus (contd)
Four ten-week courses of 250-300 mid-grade
officers per year

• Lsn Title Hours Method
• OCF 17 Interagency Case Study 2 CS
• OCF 18 Joint Interagency Coordination Group
  (JIACG) 1 GD
• OCF 19 Crisis Response Contingencies 2.5
  GD
• OCF 20 Multinational Case Study 2 CS/GD
• OCF 21 Iraqi Perspective Project 1.5
  IL
• OCF 22 Stability Operations 2 GD
• OCF 23 Interagency Panel 2 IL
• OCF 24 Multinational Panel 2 IL
• OCF 25 Future Operational Concepts 1.5 GS
  
• JPP 01A Introduction to Military Planning
  1 GD
• JPP 02 Collaborative Information Environment
  (CIE) 1 IL
• JPP 03 Crisis Planning Case Studies 1.5
  IL
• JPP 04 Strategic Guidance Initiation-JIPOE
  (JOPP Step 1) 2 GD/PE
• JPP 05 Strategic Guidance Mission Analysis
  (JOPP Step 2) 10 GD/PE

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JCWS Syllabus (contd)
Four ten-week courses of 250-300 mid-grade
officers per year

• Lsn Title Hours Method
• JPP 06 Concept Development COA Development
  (JOPP Step 3) 10 GD/PE
• JPP 07 Concept Development COA Analysis-SEst.
  (JOPP Step 4) 8 GD/PE
• JPP 08 Concept Development COA
  Analysis-Wargaming (Step 5) 8 GD/PE
• JPP 09 Concept Development COA Comparison
  (JOPP Step 6) 6 GD/PE
• JPP 10 Concept Development CONOPS Approval
  (JOPP Step 6) 4 GD/PE
• JPP 11 Force, Support and Transportation
  Planning (JOPP Step 7) 1 GD/PE
• JPP 12 Plan Development Shortfall
  Identification (JOPP Step 7) 2 GD/PE
• JPP 14 Crisis Action Planning (CAP) 1
  GD
• COE 01 Globalism 2 IL
• COE 02 Terrorism 2 IL
• COE 03 Insurgency Theory 2 IL
• COE 04 Counter-Insurgency Theory 2
  IL
• COE 05 Counter-Insurgency Case Study Malaya
  2 IL
• COE 06 Transformation 2 IL

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JCWS Syllabus (contd)
Four ten-week courses of 250-300 mid-grade
officers per year

• Computer Assisted Simulations
• Lsn Title Hours Method
• PG PURPLE GUARDIAN (Homeland Security/Defense)
  7 PE
• PL PURPLE LIGHTNING (Crisis Response / LCO)
  12 PE
• PW PURPLE WARRIOR (MCO and SSRT) 36
  PE

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JAWS Syllabus
Eleven-month graduate program for 40 mid-grade
officers
Strategy
Campaign Planning
Theory of War

• Lsn Title Hours Method
• TH 6111A Classical Theories of Warfighting
  3 IL/GD
• TH 6111C/D Contemporary Theories 6 GD
• TH 6112G Global War On Terror 1.5 GD
• TH 6112H Insurgency Warfare 3 GD
• TH 6121 Information Warfare 3 GD
• TH 6112J Future War 3 GD
• TH 6113E/F Bin Laden/Ahmadinejad //
  Putin/Jiantao 9 GD
• TH 6115A Preparing for War 18 CS
• TH 6115B Paradigms for Occupation (SSTR)
  6 GD
• TH 6116 NSS/ Surprise Cultures Clash of
  Civilizations 9 IL/GD
• ST 6302 Grand Strategy 3 IL/GD
• ST 6303 The International Environment
  3 IL/GD
• ST 6311A Interagency Contributions and
  Capabilities 3 IL/GD
• ST 6312 National Defense Strategy 3 IL/GD
• ST 6313 National Military Strategy 3 IL/GD

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JAWS Syllabus (contd)
Eleven-month graduate program for 40 mid-grade
officers
Strategy
Operational Planning
Theory of War

• Lsn Title Hours Method
• ST 6322 Seat of Strategic Guidance (D.C.
  Interagency Trip) 32 GS/SF
• ST 6324 Threat Exercise Strategic
  Analysis 9 GD/PE
• ST 6325/6 USPACOM / USEUCOM CCDR VTC
  4 GS
• ST 6328 AFRICOM 3 GS
• ST 6363 USSOUTHCOM / USCENTCOM / USSOCOM /
  JIATF-S 24 GS/SF
• ST 6332 Allied Command Transformation
  5 GS
• ST 6336 Strategic Vulnerabilities
  Exercise 24 PE
• TH 6121A Vietnam 3 IL/GD
• TH 6121C Operation JUST CAUSE
  3 GS/SF
• TH 6121D Operation DESERT STORM
  3 GS/SF
• TH 6121E Somalia 3 GS/SF
• TH 6121F Bosnia, Kosovo 3 GS/SF
• TH 6123A Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
  3 GS/SF
• TH 6123B Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
  3 GS/SF

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JAWS Syllabus (contd)
Eleven-month graduate program for 40 mid-grade
officers
Strategy
Operational Planning
Theory of War

• Lsn Title Hours Method
• OP 6505 Planning, Operational Art, Design
  and Assessment 6 GD/PE
• OP 6515 War Plans Analysis 4 GD/PE
• OP 6517 OIF Plan Analysis 4 GD
• OP 6518 Combatant Command Campaign
  Planning 4 GD
• OP 6519 Planning Initiative
  2 GD/PE
• OP 6520 Task Analysis 2 GD/PE
• OP 6521 Analyze Higher CDRs Intent
  2 GD/PE
• OP 6524 Determine POL/MIL
  Endstates/Objectives/Effects 8 GD/PE
• OP 6520 Task Analysis 2 GD/PE
• OP 6525 JIPOE 8 GS/GD/PE
• OP 6526 Centers of Gravity 8
  GS/GD/PE
• OP 6527 Force Structure Analysis
  2 GD/PE
• OP 6528 Initial Risk Assessment
  2 GD/PE
• OP 6529 CCIRs 4 GD/PE
• OP 6532 Mission Analysis Brief 6
  SF/GD/PA
• OP 6533 Initial CCDRs Planning Guidance
  2 GD/PE

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JAWS Syllabus (contd)
Eleven-month graduate program for 40 mid-grade
officers
Strategy
Operational Planning
Theory of War

• Lsn Title Hours Method
• OP 6534 Initial CCDRs Intent
  2 GD/PE
• OP 6536 Political Considerations
  2 GD
• OP 6537 FDOs 2 GD
• OP 6538 Lines of Operation 4 GD/PE
• OP 6544 COA Analysis and Wargaming
  21 GD/PE
• OP 6545 Information Operations Course
  40 GD/PE
• OP 6546 Branches and Sequels
  4 GD/PE
• OP 6549 Commanders Estimate of the
  Situation 3 GD/PE
• OP 6550 JSOU 32 GS/GD/PE
• OP 6551 CONOPS Plan Development 20
  GD/PE
• OP 6553 WMD/CBRNE JSLC 16 GS/GD/PE
• OP 6554 OPLAN Brief 4 GS/GD/PE
• OP 6555 Planning and Assessment During
  Execution 24 SE/GD/PE
• OP 6556 Contingency Plan Application
  2 GD/PE
• OP 6558 Homeland Security Planners Course
  16 GS/GD/PE
• OP 6560 MOOTW/LIC Week 16 GS/GD/PE
• OP 6561 OEF Plan Analysis 3
  GS/GD/PE
• OP 6562 Joint Interagency Multinational
  Planners Course 16 GS/GD/PE