Force Protection and Command Relationships: Who's Responsible.
Abstract
This monograph investigates the role of command relationships in delineating authority, responsibility, and accountability for force protection during the execution of joint force operations. It assesses the effectiveness of these relationships in protecting the joint force and the effect that different command and/or support relationships have on enhancing or degrading force protection. This monograph analyzes the joint force protection program by investigating the terms: command, chain of command, command relationship, and how these terms authorize and empower a commander to implement this program across the joint force. Through operational art and the design of campaigns and major operations, combatant commanders accomplish assigned missions in support of national objectives. Application of the tenets of operational art provides the campaign planner the greatest means of protecting the force at the strategic and operational levels. By incorporating or accounting for the capabilities and limitations of both friendly and enemy forces, campaign designers are able to quickly achieve national objectives with minimal loss of life and resources.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 16, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA366341
Entities
People
- James H. Moller
Organizations
- United States Army Command and General Staff College