Standing Joint Task Force Headquarters: Creating Opportunities from Chaos

Abstract

This paper argues that establishing PJHQ-US (Permanent Joint Headquarters-US) from Service Component Headquarters will enhance US joint warfighting skills and improve the future development of JC2 capabilities at the Operational Level of War. Indications through historical research, lessons learned from previous and current operations in the Global War on Terror, and emerging concepts from Joint Training and Experimentation conclude that the next logical step in the JC2 evolution would be to create uniquely designed Permanent Joint Headquarters-United States (PJHQ-US). These permanently assigned joint operational level commanders and staffs would be fully manned, trained, and equipped. PJHQ-US would have the organizational procedures and processes to plan and execute operations ranging across the full spectrum of conflict from Major Combat Operations (MCOs) to Stability and Support Operations (SASO) and from pre-crisis to conclusion in support of any of the Combatant Commander's objectives and our National Military Strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 14, 2006
Accession Number
ADA451266

Entities

People

  • Charles A. Flynn

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Employment
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

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  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.