Course

Objective:

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand and apply the basic tenets of national strategic documents
• Comprehend how authority to manage and command military assets is divided between operational and supporting defense establishment organizations
• Comprehend the joint planning process to include the Joint Strategic Planning System, the Deliberate Planning Process, the Crisis Action Planning, and the emerging Adaptive Planning Process
• Understand the roles, responsibilities, missions, and organizational structures of U.S. Government agencies and departments and multinational organizations in interagency and multinational coordination planning operations
• Understand the organizational complexities of interagency coordination at the various levels and the difficulty in defining and measuring success
• Analyze strategic guidance and policies with regards to a growing complex contingency which requires military support to an interagency, whole-of-government effort within a fictional theater command
• Comprehend the complexity of interagency coordination issues with regard to organizational structure, command and control, and the nature of the threat
• Comprehend the dynamic nature of complex contingency, reconstruction, and stability operations
• Understand and apply the national-level interagency process in terms of organization and operation of the National Security Council and Homeland Security Council
• Understand Department of Defense/Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff's roles and responsibilities within the joint, interagency, and multinational planning process at the national and operational levels
• Analyze how State Department initiatives in planning processes and structures may interact with existing military planning processes
• Analyze U.S. national strategies, policies, Presidential Directives, and U.S. Joint Doctrine on complex contingencies and stability operations using case studies

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