Planner’s Handbook for Operational Design

planner s HandbookforOperational DesignVersion Staff, J-7 Joint and Coalition WarfightingSuffolk, Virginia 7 October 2011 DEPUTY DIRECTOR, J-7, JOINT STAFF JOINT AND COALITION WARFIGHTING 116 LAKE VIEW PARKWAY SUFFOLK, VA 23435-2697 MESSAGE TO JOINT WARFIGHTERS Military operations, particularly those involving combat, have always been tough. However, today s Operational environment challenges us even more with increasingly complex and interconnected geopolitical circumstances, the blurring of the lines between combatants and civilians, rapid technology change, and adaptive adversaries who possess a wider range of capabilities and an ideological home-field advantage. Strategic and Operational -level problems that cannot be solved with military ways and means alone are the norm rather than the exception. In his October 2009 Vision for a Joint Approach to Operational Design , General James Mattis observed that standard planning processes have served us well to this point.

However, today’s operational environment challenges us even more with increasingly complex and interconnected geopolitical circumstances, the blurring of the lines between combatants and civilians, rapid technology change, and adaptive adversaries who possess a wider range of capabilities and an ideological “home-field” advantage.

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