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

Chapter II
measurable and achievable objectives that contribute to the strategic end states in the GEF.
Contingency plans for responding to crisis scenarios should be treated as branch plans to the
campaign plan. For planning purposes, GCCs use assigned forces, those rotationally
deployed into the AOR, and those forces that historically have been deployed for
engagement activities. Each GCC’s TCP and FCC’s GCP are sent to CJCS for review and
integration into the global family of TCPs.
(b) Campaign Support Plans. Supporting CCMDs, Services, and DOD
agencies routinely conduct security cooperation activities within a GCC’s AOR or involving
foreign nationals from countries within an AOR. Services and select DOD agencies will
coordinate and provide their security cooperation strategies to the supported GCC.
1. Campaign support plans will balance competing CCMD demands for
limited global resources.
2. Campaign support plans or their update memoranda are submitted to the
CJCS and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy for review annually and are shared with the
GCCs.
c. Role of the Geographic Combatant Commanders
(1) GCCs are the vital link between those who determine national security policy
and strategy and the military forces or subordinate JFCs that conduct military operations
within their AORs. GCCs are responsible for a large geographical area and for effective
coordination of operations within that area. Directives flow from the President and SecDef
through CJCS to the GCCs, who plan and conduct the operations that achieve national or
multinational strategic objectives. GCCs provide guidance and direction through strategic
estimates, command strategies, and plans and orders for the employment of military force.
As military force may not achieve national objectives, it must be coordinated, synchronized,
and if appropriate, integrated with other USG departments and agencies, IGOs, NGOs,
multinational forces (MNFs), and elements of the private sector.
(2) Using their strategic estimate(s) and strategic options, GCCs develop strategies
that translate national and multinational direction into strategic concepts or courses of action
(COAs) to meet strategic and joint operation planning requirements. GCCs’ plans provide
strategic direction; assign missions, tasks, forces, and resources; designate objectives;
provide authoritative direction; promulgate ROE and rules for the use of force (RUF);
establish constraints and restraints (military limitations); and define policies and CONOPS to
be integrated into subordinate or supporting plans. GCCs also exercise directive authority
for logistics over assigned forces and authority for force protection over all DOD personnel
(including their dependents) assigned, attached, transiting through, or training in the GCC’s
AOR. The exception is for those for whom a chief of mission retains security responsibility.
d. Functional Combatant Commanders. FCCs provide support to and may be
supported by GCCs and other FCCs as directed by higher authority. FCCs are responsible
for a large functional area requiring single responsibility for effective coordination of the
operations therein. These responsibilities are normally global in nature. The President and
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