Joint Pub 5-00.2 Joint Task Force Planning Guidance and ... - BITS

• Whatever the program, it should improve
the efficiency of the staff and lead to
building the joint team.
f. JTF components will be discussed in
detail in Chapter III, “Joint Task Force
Subordinate Commands.”
3. JTF Headquarters Functions
a. Collective Staff. Responsibilities of the
collective staff may include the following.
• Conducting or participating in crisis
action planning (CAP).
• Planning for deployment, employment,
and redeployment of the JTF.
• Assisting the CJTF to direct, control, and
coordinate operations of assigned and
attached forces and to coordinate
planning activities of subordinate
component commands.
• Developing and analyzing courses of
action (COAs) and conducting staff
estimates.
• Preparing operation plans (OPLANs),
campaign plans, or operation orders
(OPORDs) based on the CJTF’s
decisions concerning COAs and tasking
by the establishing authority.
• Positioning air operations planning and
coordination as tasked by the CJTF when
the conflict or situation is of such limited
duration, scope, and/or complexity that
the CJTF elects not to designate a joint
force air component commander
(JFACC).
See JP 3-56.1, “Command and Control for
Joint Air Operations.”
Joint Task Force Organization and Staffing
• Providing information to supporting or
adjacent commands.
• Coordinating with other forces and
agencies not assigned.
• Coordinating with friendly forces and/
or foreign governments when required
by the order establishing the JTF.
• Monitoring accomplishment of the
CJTF’s decisions.
b. The remainder of this chapter will
provide a more precise overview of the
functions and responsibilities of a number of
the JTF’s key individuals, staff sections, and
selected others.
“The best means of organizing the
command of an army...is to: (1) Give
the command to a man of tried bravery,
bold in the fight and of unshaken
firmness in danger. (2) Assign as his
chief of staff a man of high ability, of
open and faithful character, between
whom and the commander there may
be perfect harmony.”
Jomini
Precis de l’ Art de la Guerre,
1836
SECTION B. KEY
FUNCTIONS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES
4. Commander, JTF
Some of the many responsibilities of the
CJTF outlined below relate directly and
indirectly to JTF organization and functioning.
a. The CJTF makes recommendations to
the establishing authority on the proper
employment of assigned and attached forces
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