JP 3-16, Multinational Operations - Defense Technical Information ...

Executive Summary
capabilities/force made available based on the MNFC’s air
apportionment decision.
Special Operations
Joint Fires
Multinational
Communications
Integration
Multinational Logistics
Counterdrug Operations
SOF can provide specific assistance in the area of
assessment, liaison, and training of host country forces
within the MNTF OA. Special operations responsibility
will normally be assigned to an MNF special operations
component commander or to a TF within the MNF
command structure.
Effective fire support coordination in multinational
operations may require additional efforts due to differing
national priorities and the risk of friendly fire, civilian
casualties, and collateral damage. To maximize the fires
of the MNF and to minimize the possibility of friendly
fire, the MNFC should ensure that fire support
coordination throughout the MNF is developed.
Multinational communications integration (MCI) is the
MNFs’ coordination and employment of actions, images,
and words to support the achievement of participating
nations’ overall strategic objectives and end state. MCI
consists of coordinated programs, plans, themes,
messages, and products synchronized with the actions of
all instruments of national power in an MNF at the
strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
Successful multinational logistic operations are governed
by several unique principles. First, multinational logistic
operations are a collective responsibility of participating
nations and the MNFC, although nations are inherently
responsible for supporting their forces. A second principle
is that MNFCs should be given sufficient authority over
logistic resources to ensure that the force is supported in
the most efficient and effective manner. Third,
cooperation and coordination are necessary among
participating nations and forces, which should make use of
multinational logistic support arrangements in order to
reduce the logistic footprint in the OA. Finally, synergy
results from the use of multinational integrated logistic
support; to ensure this, the MNFC must have visibility of
the logistic activity during the operation.
Counterdrug (CD) operations are inherently interagency
and/or multinational in nature. DOD supports the US
Government lead agencies for both domestic and
international CD operations, so military planning requires
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