fm 44-100 us army air and missile defense operations

FM 44-100
military strategy and objectives, and developing planning guidance leading to
the preparation of COAs, OPLANs, and OPORDs.
Course of Action Development
6-42. Provides the CINC's staff help to develop and test alternative courses of
action (COA) based upon NCA/CJCS task assignments, guidance, and force
and resource allocation. This facilitates development of the CINC's strategic
concept in deliberate planning or the commander's estimate in crisis action
planning.
Detailed Planning
6-43. This function supports rapid preparation of the approved concept of operations
or COA for implementation. Detailed planning results in an CJCSapproved
OPLAN or a National Command Authority-approved OPORD.
Implementation
Monitoring
6-44. Function provides the decision-makers tools to monitor and analyze
events and manage events during execution. Implementation begins with the
CJCS execution order and usually ends with some type of planning effort,
such as termination or redirection of operations.
6-45. Function makes current and accurate information concerning friendly,
enemy, and neutral forces and resources available to users. This function
supports each of the other JOPES functions.
Simulation and Analysis
6-46. Function includes automated techniques that support each of the other
JOPES functions. Examples of simulation and analysis applications, when
feasible, are force-on-force assessments, and generation of force requirements.
THEATER STRATEGIC PLANNING
6-47. Theater-strategic planning during peacetime provides the framework
for the wartime employment of forces. Combatant commanders or CINCs,
through their planning staffs, develop a variety of peacetime assessments
and contingency plans that ease transition to a crisis or war. Peacetime intelligence
and logistics assessments are essential for rapid transition to forceprojection
operations.
6-48. Planners develop strategic end states tailored to the particular situation
in war or conflict. The combatant commander modifies existing strategic and
contingency plans and alters portions of the theater strategy using crisisaction
planning. The theater strategy is written in terms of military objectives,
military concepts, and resources. It provides guidance for a broad range
of activities throughout the AO.
6-49. Commanders and staff conduct theater-strategic planning using the
JOPES. The assigned planning requirements are formulated into a family of
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