JOINT MILITARY APPRECIATION

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DEPLOYABLE JOINT FORCE HEADQUARTERS

• JOINT MILITARY APPRECIATION
• PROCESS
• (JMAP)

DJFHQ Adaptation and Implementation

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Why Bother

• I dont work at this level.
• Im in a Service or Unit that doesnt use this
  process for very good reasons.
• Its just more bloody theory anyway - only ever
  used at Training Institutions.

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Why Bother

• Well it isnt just theory any more. We are in the
  busiest operational planning period of my
  career.
• Similar processes are used by Defence Forces
  around the world.
• You must certainly modify it to suit your
  purposes but directions you are likely to receive
  have been formulated using this process so it
  best to get to grips with it.

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I promise

• As little doctrine as possible.
• Personal views based on either operations or
  major exercises.
• A joint perspective.

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A lecture is the process by which the notes of
the lecturer become the notes of the students,
without passing through the minds of either.

• R.K. Rathburn

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An expert is one who knows so much about so
little that he can neither be contradicted, nor
is worth contradicting

• Henry Ward

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JMAP
Preliminary Scoping

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Deficiencies/Requirements

• Situational Awareness across the staff
• Linkages between Components, BOS and staff
  functions
• Utility of current products - Inputs/Outputs
• Gap between Mission Analysis and COA Development
• Time Management

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I took a speed reading course and read War and
Peace in twenty minutes.

• Its about Russia.
• Woody Allen

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Planning Groups

• Commanders Planning Group
• Joint Planning Group
• Joint Admin Planning Group
• Joint Intelligence Planning Group
• Joint Surveillance and Targeting Planning Group
  and Targeting Board

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JMAP
Preliminary Scoping

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PRELIMINARY SCOPING

• Situation update/Forces Available - a need for
  the reintroduction of relative strengths.
• Strategic/Higher direction - clarity and focus
  are the essential requirements.
• Commanders initial guidance
• Planning timeline
• Division of responsibilities

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Preliminary Scoping

• The initial CPG Meeting
• Incorporating the components
• Set the focus for IPB
• Determine the initial staff effort
• Establish the time management

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Time Management
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Time Management

• MISSION ANALYSIS 20
• MISSION ANALYSIS 50
• COG / DE CONSTRUCT 10 MISSION ANALYSIS
  BRIEF 30 COMD GUIDANCE 10
• COA DEV 30
• BROAD COA DEV 20 SCHEME OF MANOUEVRE 50 COA
  DEV BRIEF 20 COMD GUIDANCE 10
• COA ANALYSIS 30
• PREP FOR WARGAMING 20 WARGAMING 60 PROD OF
  SYNCH / DSM 10 COMD GUIDANCE 10

DECISION / EXECUTION 10 COA COMPARISON 10 DECIS
ION BRIEF 70 COMD GUIDANCE 20 ORDERS
PRODUCTION 10 WRITE ORDER 60 EDIT BY J5 / J3
15 EDIT BY COFS 10 EDIT BY
COMD 5 REPRODUCTION / DISTR 10
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Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace

• Getting the composition of the JIPG right.
• For example - the need for joint logisticians
• The utility of higher level product. Country
  studies vs the need for an analysis of strategic
  and operational level COG.
• The ability to analyse and articulate the
  intangible.

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Mission Analysis

• COG Construct considered earlier than COA Dev
• Proposed Decisive Events and Draft Comds Intent
  (Method Statement)
• Improved Situational Awareness
• Preparation for COA Development
• Decisive Event linkages

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And a chance for the staff to think on their feet
under pressure

• Did they pass the Charles De Gaulle test?

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Charles De Gaulle looked like a female llama
surprised in her bath.Winston Churchill
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CRITICAL VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS
The enemy COG is his ability to generate combat
power. I intend to negate this COG through
disruption of the enemys ability to observe and
direct fire by the denial of key terrain suitable
for OPs. I will dislocate the enemy combined
arms team by a combination of tactical obstacles
and the siting of positions to maximise the
constraining effects of the ground and the range
advantage of my anti-armour weapons. Finally, I
will disrupt his ability to fight dismounted by
encouraging an attack at night over terrain
suitable for concentrated direct and indirect
fire.
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Example CJTF Operational COG
Force Projection
ASSESSED OPERATIONAL COG
(From GCB until Lodgement)
PHASES
Transit Focal Area
Lodgement Forced Passage
CVBG/ ARG
Int Assets
ARG
CVBG
TACTICAL COG
Morale Ability to sustain ops WLS Essex
Ability to detect deception Ltd number strike
acft
Casualties MCM CAS/CAP Weather Fire spt
AOR SLOC Attack helo
CRITICAL VULNERABILITIES
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COG construct

• Threat Targetable Critical Vulnerabilities
• Targeting, Collection Plan, RSI
• IO planning
• Templated - matrix approach early in process
• Can be qualified by
• BOS to deliver effect
• Time or Phase
• Close, Deep, Rear
• Utility across the whole staff. Basis of the
  common understanding of the en and the effect we
  want to have on him

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COG construct

• Friendly forces
• Vulnerabilities - Force Protection tasks
• EEFI - OPSEC, CI, and IO planning
• Force ratio comparison in key capabilities,
  strengths vs weaknesses.

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Decisive Event Planning

• What events must I successfully achieve to target
  the enemys critical vulnerabilities and achieve
  my superior commanders intent ?

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Decisive Event Planning

• Two key elements combined to ensure success
  (Defeat en and meet Comds Intent)
• Target en weaknesses to get to his COG
• Complete tasks to meet superior Comds Intent
• Determine which of the CVs we are able to Target
  and have an effect on
• Review of the Essential Tasks

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COA Development

• Focus shifted to targeting as a driver
• Decisive Events and effects on TCVs
• Key input from BOS planners - effect

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COA Development

• Lines of operation through Decisive Event
  combinations

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COA Development

• Time compressed planning - modification
• COA Dev ends with Hasty Wargame and brief of
  results
• Detailed preparation and synchronisation of one
  COA

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Targeting at DJFHQ

• Targeting at DJFHQ incorporates lethal and
  non-lethal targeting.
• Aims to integrate the RSI effort with the
  exploitation effort and BDA, which in turn
  informs the continuing targeting effort in
  support of the overall plan.

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The Targeting Working Group (TWG)

• The TWG, headed by the J9, integrates the
  targeting plan with the JMAP and is one of the HQ
  key working groups
• The TWG comprises core targeting and TA staff
  with augmentation from SMEs, and LOs for the full
  gambit of RSI assets, and lethal and non-lethal
  exploitation assets.
• The inputs and outputs between the TWG and the
  JPG during the JMAP are shown in the following
  slides.

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TWG Inputs and Outputs to the JMAP
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TWG Inputs and Outputs to the JMAP Contd...
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REVIEW

STEP 2
STEP 1
Course of Action DEVELOPMENT
Comds Guidance
MISSION ANALYSIS
STEP X
JIPB
Course of Action ANALYSIS (Deliberate)
STEP 4
DECISION EXECUTION
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Course of Action Analysis

• War gaming to endstate
• Throughout the battlespace
• Identifies adv and disadv of COA
• Identifies Risk
• Identifies Comds Decisions
• Synchronises capabilities
• Identifies NAI and TAI
• Establishes the key logistic requirements

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Course of Action Analysis

• Dry synch and preparations are essential
• Synchronisation and Decision Support Matrix
• Production of Operational timeline - Battle
  Management

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Decision and Execution

• Review of Products
• Less cumbersome OPORD
• Proposed changes to
• Task Organisation Matrix
• Synchronisation Matrix
• OPORD body
• Better use of Graphics

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Hitlers original title for Mein Kampf was Four
and a half Years of Struggle against Lies,
Stupidity and Cowardice.

• Everyone needs an editor.
• Tim Foote

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Conclusion

• DJFHQ has embraced the JMAP and Decisive Event
  Planning
• Improving Situational Awareness through using
  TCVs and Decisive Events is the basis for the
  common understanding of Comds Intent
• Linkages between planning groups, Components, BOS
  and advisors remains the area for focus

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And for all that there will be times when your
views about the JMAP will be similar to Mr
Thomass views about Welsh Nationalism
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When asked his opinion of Welsh nationalism, Mr
Thomas replied in three words, two of which were
Welsh nationalism.

• Dylan Thomas

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