Planning how to plan in the US
09 Oct 2008
US Defence officials are writing a concept of operations that will lay out the implications of the Pentagon’s relatively new “adaptive planning” (AP) process on everything from budgets to personnel structure, a Joint Staff official told
InsideDefense.
Officials at US Joint Forces Command are expected to deliver the document to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council later this year, Marine Corps Col. Jerome Driscoll said.
The upcoming concept of operations follows the release of the Pentagon’s second edition of an adaptive planning “roadmap,” signed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates in March.
Gates’ predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, signed the first iteration in December 2005.
The March 2008 “adaptive planning” roadmap provides ‘the foundation for a constellation of joint and combined operations and living plans designed and resourced to achieve national defense and military strategy objectives.’
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• Joint Land Combat • Population Protection • Public Information
• Population Support • Indigenous Capacity Building
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