Developing Doctrine for the Future Joint Force

<p>The Joint Operations Concept (JOpsC) describes how the future Joint Force intends to operate within the next 15-20 years and the key attributes required for full spectrum dominance: fully integrated expeditionary networked decentralized adaptability decision superiority and lethality. Recent contingencies displayed rapidly executable globally and operationally distributed simultaneous and sequential operations characteristic of the future Joint Force. Despite the success of these operations they highlighted seams and shortfalls in current joint doctrine. In order for the future Joint Force to fully realize the synergies of air-ground integration joint doctrine should evolve in several key areas. This paper addresses five focus areas related to future joint air-ground integration: supporting/supported relationships establishing directives and emerging concepts synchronization of interdiction and maneuver joint fires concepts and fire support coordination measures. Using the joint doctrine Command and Control Tenets and JOpsC as a framework this paper proposes doctrine concepts for the future Joint Force. By its completion this paper introduces new command and control relationships and processes joint organizational structures and joint fires concepts. The proposed doctrine concepts offer a framework to analyze the desired future capabilities of the Air Force and Army. The analysis concludes by recommending several avenues to create synergy and minimize seams in future joint operations.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>