JP 1, Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States - Defense ...

Chapter II
those of other USG departments and agencies in pursuit of national goals. This document
provides the ways in the ends, ways, and means construct.
(3) The NMS, signed by CJCS, supports the aims of the NSS and implements the
NDS. It describes the Armed Forces’ plan to achieve military objectives in the near term and
provides a vision for maintaining a force capable of meeting future challenges. It also
provides focus for military activities by defining a set of interrelated military objectives and
joint operating concepts from which the CCDRs and Service Chiefs identify desired
capabilities and against which the CJCS assesses risk. This provides the final piece of the
ends, ways, and means construct—the means.
(4) Guidance for Employment of the Force. The GEF merges Contingency
Planning Guidance and Security Cooperation Guidance into one document that provides
comprehensive, near-term planning guidance. The GEF provides Presidential and SecDef
politico-military guidance. The President approves the contingency planning guidance
contained in the GEF and approves SecDef’s issuance of the GEF. The GEF is guided by the
UCP and NDS and forms the basis for strategic policy guidance, campaign plans, and the
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP).
(5) Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan. The JSCP provides guidance to CCDRs,
Service Chiefs, CSA directors, applicable DOD agencies, DOD field activity directors, and
the CNGB to accomplish tasks and missions based on near-term military capabilities. The
JSCP is signed by the CJCS and implements campaign, contingency, and posture planning
guidance reflected in the GEF.
(6) Further, the GEF and JSCP provide CCDRs with specific planning guidance for
preparation of their theater campaign plans (TCPs), global campaign plans (GCPs),
subordinate campaign plans, and contingency plans. Figure II-1 illustrates the various
strategic guidance sources described below in the context of national strategic direction.
(7) The National Strategy for Homeland Security, also signed by the President,
provides national direction to secure the homeland through a comprehensive framework for
organizing the efforts of federal, state, local, tribal, and private organizations whose primary
functions are often unrelated to national security.
(8) The National Response Framework developed by DHS establishes a
comprehensive, national-level, all-hazards, all-discipline approach to domestic incident
management. It covers the full range of complex and constantly changing requirements in
anticipation of, or in response to, threats or acts of terrorism, major disasters, and other
emergencies. DOD develops or revises its plans to align with this framework and effectively
and efficiently employ the joint force.
(a) A TCP is based on planning guidance provided by the GEF and JSCP. A
TCP operationalizes CCDR functional and theater strategies. Campaign plans focus on the
command’s steady-state (Phase 0) activities, which include ongoing operations, security
cooperation, and other shaping or preventive activities for the next 5 years. It should include
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