Effects-Based Planning: An Empirical Examination of the Process

Abstract

Recent world events have demonstrated that future conflicts will not necessarily be between nation states. Transnational threats to U.S. national security include drug cartels and international criminal and terrorist organizations. In response, the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) is leading a transition toward a new approach to warfare. A cornerstone of this new approach is the concept of Rapid Decisive Operations (RDO), which integrate knowledge, command and control, and Effects-Based Operations (EBO) to achieve the desired strategic outcome or "effect" on the enemy through the synergistic application of the full range of military and nonmilitary capabilities at all levels of conflict. In preparing for and conducting a RDO, the military acts in concert with and leverages the other instruments of national power to understand and reduce the adversary's critical capabilities and coherence. Focusing on effects, rather than attrition, enables a highly coordinated level of inter-service, interagency, and international cooperation. An experiment entitled "Effects Tasking Order-to-Actions Limited Objective Experiment" (ETO-to-Actions LOE) was conducted at the JFCOM, Joint Experimentation Center, Suffolk, VA, 3-14 December, 2001, to examine aspects of EBO, and to specifically assess and refine the effects-based planning and assessment (EBP&A) process. Three surveys were administered during the experiment to gather data on the effectiveness of the following: (1) the collaborative tools and the training provided to the participants for this experiment, (2) knowledge management and collaboration as critical aspects of effects-based planning, and (3) the EBP&A process. This paper describes the results of a subset of the survey on the EBP&A process, which included 43 items that participants rated using a 5-point Likert scale. This is a companion paper to two other papers that discuss the results of the other two surveys that were administered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA460883

Entities

People

  • Dan Boger
  • Jeffrey J. Crowson
  • Ron Adamo
  • Susan G. Hutchins
  • William G. Kemple

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Defense Systems
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lessons Learned
  • Measures Of Effectiveness
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Standards
  • Surveillance
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Analysis
  • Task Forces
  • Teamwork
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Organizational Psychology.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control