Joint Force Headquarters - Global Strike: Preserving, Advancing, and Accelerating Operational Art for the Joint Force Commander
Abstract
On 10 January 2003, President Bush assigned the newly created mission of "global strike" to U.S. Strategic Command. While streamlining the nation's crisis planning and execution capabilities, this innovative change to the Unified Command Plan presents several organizational and cultural challenges for the regional combatant commanders. It can be viewed as infringing upon theater unity of command, a potential avenue for increased national level control and interference, and a competitor for finite warfighting resources. Balancing these competing needs is both challenging and imperative, particularly in the era of smaller force structures and potentially devastating threats such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. To meet the needs of both the President and regional combatant commanders, U.S. Strategic Command should establish a subordinate element, Joint Force Headquarters - Global Strike (JFHQ-GS), comprised of a standing crisis action planning staff and a small number of assigned joint and service capabilities to provide accelerated, specialized, and integrated global strike operations for the Joint Force Commander. (33 refs.)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 09, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA422787
Entities
People
- Jeffrey A. Kruse
Organizations
- Naval War College