Effects-Based Operations: Enhancing Operational Art and Design in the 21st Century
Abstract
The attacks of September 11, 2001 and the resulting combat operations in Afghanistan compelled the Armed Forces to thoroughly review and revise current warfighting concepts to determine if they are adaptable to changing technologies, threats and missions. The Services are moving forward with transformation roadmaps to build a capabilities-based force, but what has not moved as quickly is a clear understanding of how to execute effects-based operations in a complex and challenging contemporary operating environment. Effects-based operations (EBO) are, Operations planned, executed, assessed, and adapted based on a holistic understanding of the operational environment in order to influence or change system behavior or capabilities using the integrated application of selected instruments of power to achieve directed policy aims. (USJFCOM, 2004, 2) EBO expands our warfighting concepts and capabilities through the dynamic application of selected elements of national power made available to a combatant commander to achieve operational and strategic endstates through full spectrum-operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 13, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA436609
Entities
People
- Kevin D. Admiral
Organizations
- National Defense University