JP 3-01 Countering Air and Missile Threats - Defense Innovation ...

Global Ballistic Missile Defense Synchronization
(7) ROE. ROE are the means to provide military commanders guidance for
weapons employment consistent with law and policy. Due to short engagement timelines
and the vulnerability of communications relating to GBMD, robust, prior political
agreements will need to be reached, planning synchronized, and operations thoroughly
trained and exercised. A set of general standing ROE is essential for all BMD and GBMD.
ROE must comply with the requirements of any alliance, treaty, coalition, bilateral, or
multilateral agreements to which the United States is a party. Agreements between coalition
and/or allied nations should be reached to permit interceptor and sensor operations in
territorial airspace.
(8) International Law. Due to the short engagement timelines and the vulnerability
of communications between nations, tasking and engagement authorities for multinational
forces and resources conducting GBMD must be planned and take into account individual
national interpretations of international law and constitutional limitations. Planners must
also recognize that each nation in a coalition or alliance may invoke separate, legal, and
political obligations to third parties through treaties, alliances, and other such bilateral or
multilateral agreements. DOD forces will adhere to the law of armed conflict during all
military operations.
(9) Collateral Effects. Two key planning considerations are minimizing collateral
effects of BMD offensive actions and defensive measures to minimize the effects of hostile
BMD attacks. In principle, priority should be given to actions that maximize the probability
of success of actions saving the most lives. Defense effectiveness should take primacy over
debris mitigation when protecting a defended asset. Response actions to the collateral effects
of BMD employment may include responding to personal injury, property loss, terrestrial or
space debris cleanup resulting from BMD engagements or testing, high-altitude EMP, and
CBRN. The coordination of information between organizations planning BMD and potential
HN first responders is essential. Moreover, partner nations will require a system or systems
to warn member nations and affected third parties on defensive actions and possible
consequences.
For additional information regarding CBRN hazards, see JP 3-11, Operations in Chemical,
Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Environments, and regarding CM, see JP 3-
41, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Consequence Management.
e. Contributing Capabilities
(1) Missile Warning. BMD is greatly enabled by persistent and reliable strategic
indications and warnings. Space-based and ground-based systems are crucial for timely
detection and communicating warning of nuclear detonations or adversary use of BMs
against US forces and allies. Integrated tactical warning and attack assessment systems are
essential for the execution of the US strategic missile warning for attacks on the US and
Canada. Tactical warning is a notification to C2 centers that a specific threat event is
occurring or has occurred. Attack assessment is an evaluation of information to determine
the potential or actual nature and objectives of an attack for the purpose of providing
information for timely decisions. The component elements that describe threat events
include the country of origin, the event type and size, the country that is determined to be
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