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Objective:

Learning Outcomes:

• The organization and functions of the primary elements of the national military command structure
• The formal and informal ways the interagency process works
• The challenges involved in planning multinational operations
• The planning considerations to achieve unity of effort in multinational operations
• The operations, joint military doctrine, and emerging concepts in peace, crisis, war, and post-conflict
• The roles that factors such as geopolitics, geostrategy, society, religion, region, and culture play in shaping, planning, and execution of joint force operations
• Of the contingency and crisis action planning processes used in Joint Operations Planning and Execution System (JOPES)
• The value of a joint perspective
• Demonstrate a functional knowledge of the following: the process of formulating U.S. national security, strategic guidance, and doctrine
• The formal process to integrate strategy, resources, and contingency planning
• The primary roles, missions, history, customs, and courtesies of the U.S. Armed Forces
• The makeup of the National Security Council (NSC) and its role in securing interagency coordination of national security policy
• The interagency process as related to the military commander and planner
• The programs that enable care and sustainment of the joint force to include warrior and family care
• The various stresses that impact the joint force and mechanisms for mitigating them

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