PSD & Joint Warfare Flashcards
Fundamental principles by which the military forces or elements there of guide their actions in support of national objectives
Doctrine
Method of Team Warfare that exposes no weak points or seams to an adversary
Fundamentals of Joint Warfigter
All of the means available to the US in pursuit of its national objective. Expressed as diplomatic, information, military, and economic
Instruments of national power
The presidents principal forum for considering Nat sec and foreign policy issues with senior Nat sec advisors and cabinet officials
National security council
The level of war at which campaigns and major operations are planned, conducted, and sustained to achieve strategic objectives within theaters or other operational areas
Operational level of war
Reflects service specific capabilities and guides the application of service forces
Service doctrine
The level of war at which a nation, often as a member of a group of nations, determines national or multinational strategic security objectives
Strategic level of war
Level of war at which battles and engagements are planned and executed.
Tactical level of war
What is expressed in objectives and rules of engagement
Policy
Guidance that is directive and instructive
Tells what to be done
Provides the choice to pursue certain avenues and not others
It is fluctuating
Policy
The how operations will be conducted to achieve national interest
Originates in policy
Plan of action, match matches a means to an end
Strategy
Authoritative but also requires judgment
Fundamental principles the military forces use to guide their actions in support of national objectives
Doctrine
What effect did the Goldwater Nichols department of defense reorganization act have on the national security strategy
Required president to report to Congress and American people on national security strategy regularly
How does the national security strategy, national defense strategy, and national military strategy interrelate
National military strategy must be consistent with the other two
Defines how operations should be conducted
Continuous matching of ends, ways, and means
Both characteristics of what
Strategy
Supports of national objectives, as authoritative, and requires judgment in application
Often times found in the rules of engagement, identifying what we can or cannot attack
Doctrine
This is the capstone publication of the US joint doctrine hierarchy.
The presents fundamental principles for employing US military forces.
Joint pub 1, doctoring for the Armed Forces of the US
When developing a strategy over which elements does a commander has some forms of control such as logistics and technology
Operational Art Elements
When developing a strategy which elements does the commander have no control over such as political systems physical environments national leadership
Contextual elements
the items the commander must consider when developing a strategy
Operational art
The overhead guidance and structure a commander must follow when developing a strategy
Operational design
Instruments of national power
“DIME”
Diplomacy
Information
Military
Economic
Who has the responsibility to organize train equip and sustain forces for joint warfare
Each service branch
What is defined as a relationship that results in a formal agreement between two or more nations for broad long-term objectives
Alliance
