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

SUMMARY OF CHANGES
REVISION OF JOINT PUBLICATION 3-16
DATED 07 MARCH 2007
• Updates discussion on security cooperation to align with proponent Joint
Publication (JP) 3-22, Foreign Internal Defense, and JP 1-02, DOD Dictionary of
Military and Associated Terms.
• Removes and replaces the term “strategic communications” and/or “SC” with
“communication synchronization” throughout the JP.
• Utilizes the term “multinational” throughout the document to represent the
myriad of terms that could be used to describe the force.
• Deletes the National Security Structure section at the beginning of Chapter II,
“Command and Coordination Relationships.”
• Replaces the term “psychological operations” throughout the publication with the
term “military information support operations” as appropriate, which more
accurately reflects and coveys the nature of planned peacetime or combat
operations activities, per Secretary of Defense Memorandum dated 3 December
2010.
• Deletes the Strategic Communications section.
• Updates and cleans up graphics and diagrams throughout the JP.
• Removes old Appendix C, “United Nations and Other Intergovernmental
Organizations Considerations.”
• Adds new Appendix C, “Multinational Interoperability Council.”
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