Unit 2: Deployed Organizations

Question 1

National Security Act of 1947

Answer 1

The President has used the SECDEF as his principal assistant relating to DoD matters

SecDef has statutory authority over the Military Departments

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Question 2

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)

Answer 2

Provides direction to the President and SECDEF for Services Secretaries and Combat Commanders (CCDRs)

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Question 3

Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)

Answer 3

Principal assistant to the President for all matters relating to the DoD

Goldwater-Nichols DOD Reorganization Act of 1986 makes clear position in operational chain of command

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Question 4

President and SECDEF exercise authority

Answer 4

Two distinct branches:

1) President>SECDEF>CCDRs>forces assigned to CCDRs
2) President>SECDEF>Secretaries of Military Departments (used for purposes other than operational control)

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Question 5

National Security Council (NSC)

Answer 5

President’s principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with senior national security advisors and cabinet officials

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Question 6

Department of Defense (DoD)

Answer 6

Federal department charged with all functions of government relating to national security and military set forth in Title 10 of US Code

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Question 7

Functions of the DoD

Answer 7

• Support and defend the Constitution of the US
• Ensure, by effective military action, the security of the US
• Uphold and advance national policies and interests of the US

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Question 8

Joint Force Organization

Answer 8

Establish at three levels:

• Combatant (unified) and specified commands
• Subordinate unified commands
• Joint Task Forces (JTF)

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Question 9

Combatant Commands

Answer 9

CDRs in the chain of command exercise:

combatant command (command authority) (COCOM)

Can be delegated:
operational control (OPCON) - base level
tactical control (TACON)
administrative control (ADCON)

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Question 10

Subordinate Unified Commands (Sub-unified Commands)

Answer 10

Commanders of sub unified commands exercise operational control of forces within an assigned Joint Operations Area (JOA)

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Question 11

Joint Task Force (JTF)

Answer 11

Anyone can establish, ex. SECDEF, CCDR, etc on a geographical area when the mission does not require overall centralized control of logistics

Goal:

• single commander
• two or more service components
• specific, limited objective not requiring overall centralized control of logistics
• dissolved when objective is achieved

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Question 12

Organizing Joint Forces

Answer 12

Key conceptual considerations:

centralized planning & decentralized execution

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Question 13

Service components

Answer 13

All joint forces include Service components because administrative and logistic support for joint forces is provided through Service components

The JFC will normally delegate operational control (OPCON) to Service component commanders

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Question 14

Functional Components

Answer 14

JFC can establish when two or more Military Departments must operate in the same dimension to accomplish a distinct aspect of the assigned mission

Command relationship is normally tactical control (TACON)

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Question 15

Operational Areas

Answer 15

Area of Responsibility (AOR) - geographical area associated with a combatant command

Area of Operations (AO) - within an AOR, AF not assigned an AO

Theater of War - President, SECDEF, or geo CCDR may elect to define a theater of war within the geographic CCDR’s AOR

Theater of Operations - Geo CCDRs may define one or more theaters of operations - that are required to conduct specific combat operations - within a theater of war

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Question 16

Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff

Answer 16

Seven members:

1. Chairman
2. Vice Chairman
3. Chief of Staff of the Army
4. Chief of Naval Operations
5. Chief of Staff of the Air Force
6. Commandant of the Marine Corps
7. Chief of the National Guard Bureau

Primary responsibility - ensure personnel readiness, etc of their respective Military Services, also act as military advisors

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Question 17

US Cyber Command

Answer 17

Ensure US and allied freedom of action in cyberspace, while denying the same to our adversaries

Focus - pulling together existing cyberspace resources, ex. Joint Information Enterprise (JIE)

Organization - Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER); 24 AF/AF Cyber Command (AFCYBER); Fleet Cyber Command (FLTCYBERCOM); Marine Forces Cyber Command (MARFORCYBER)

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Question 18

Deployable Units

Answer 18

5th Combat Communications Group - largest active duty combat comm in AF; missions include deployable Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems (ATCALS)

435 Air and Space Communications Group - USAFE’s only combat comm and C4ISR systems support for NATO and EUCOM; home to the 1st CBCS

644th CBCS - Guam; part of the 36th CRG

ACOMS - support AOCs

ACS - air picture integration from a CRC

ASOS - directing efforts of TACPs for lower levels of Army ops

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Question 19

Directorates of the Joint Staff

Answer 19

• Director of the Joint Staff
• DOM - Directorate of Management
• J1 - Personnel and Manpower
• J2 - Intelligence
• J3 - Operations
• J4 - Logistics
• J5 - Strategic Plans and Policy
• J6 - C4
• J7 - Operational Plans and Joint Force Development
• J8 - Force Structure, Resources, and Assessment

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