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What is the Joint Planning Process - Answers -✔✔ Joint Planning Process (JPP) is an
orderly, analytical set of logical steps to frame a problem; examine a mission; develop,
analyze, and compare alternative COAs; select the best COA; and produce a plan or
order.
What is Step 1 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Planning Initiation
What is step 2 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Mission Analysis
What is step 3 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Course of Action Development
What is step 4 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ COA Analysis and Wargaming
What is Step 5 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ COA Comparison
What is step 6 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ COA Approval
What is step 7 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Plan or Order Development
When does Step 1 begin? What is the name of Step 1? - Answers -✔✔ Planning
Initiation - Joint planning begins when an appropriate authority(SECDEF, POTUS, of
CJCS, or subordinate commander when higher authority not directed) recognizes
potential for military capability to be employed in support of national objectives or
inresponse to a potential or actual crisiss.
Steps a commander does during Step 1. - Answers -✔✔ Receive planning guidance
Determine time available
Receive estimates and intel
Review current OE, Problem, and initial ops approach for campaign
Joint planning Critical purposes - Answers -✔✔ Strategic Level
Operational Level
Operational level - Answers -✔✔ once strategic guidance is given, planning translates
this guidance into specific activities aimed at achieving strategic and operational-level
, objectives and attaining the military end state. This level of planning ties the training,
mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, redeployment, and demobilization
of joint forces to the achievement of military objectives that contribute to the
achievement of national security objectives in the service of enduring national interests.
Strategic Level - Answers -✔✔ joint planning provides the President and SecDef
options, based on best military advice, on use of the military in addressing national
interests and achieving the objectives in the National Security Strategy (NSS) and
Defense Strategy Review (DSR).
What is step 2? What happens in step 2 - Answers -✔✔ Mission Analysis - Mission
analysis is used to study the assigned tasks and to identify all other tasks necessary to
accomplish the mission. The primary inputs to mission analysis are strategic guidance;
the higher headquarters' planning directive; and the commander's initial planning
guidance, which may include a description of the OE, a definition of the problem, the
operational approach, and initial intent. Mission analysis helps the CC and planners
understand the problem and purpose of the operation and issue appropriate guidance to
drive the rest of the planning process.
What is Joint Planning - Answers -✔✔ Joint planning is the deliberate process of
determining how (the ways) to use military capabilities (the means) in time and space to
achieve objectives (the ends) while considering the associated risks
Key components of Mission Analysis - Answers -✔✔ Specified Tasks
Implied Tasks
Essentital Tasks
CCIR's
Constraints
Restraints
Facts
Assumptions
Mission Statement
Step 2 Specified Tasks - Answers -✔✔ Tasks assigned to a subordinate commander in
a planning directive
Step 2 Implied Tasks - Answers -✔✔ Additional tasks the commander must accomplish,
typically in order to accomplish the specified and essential tasks, support another
command, or otherwise accomplish relevant to the operation.
Step 2 Essential Tasks - Answers -✔✔ Tasks that the command must execute
successfully to attain the desired end state defined in the planning directive.
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guide) New Update
What is the Joint Planning Process - Answers -✔✔ Joint Planning Process (JPP) is an
orderly, analytical set of logical steps to frame a problem; examine a mission; develop,
analyze, and compare alternative COAs; select the best COA; and produce a plan or
order.
What is Step 1 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Planning Initiation
What is step 2 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Mission Analysis
What is step 3 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Course of Action Development
What is step 4 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ COA Analysis and Wargaming
What is Step 5 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ COA Comparison
What is step 6 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ COA Approval
What is step 7 of the JPP? - Answers -✔✔ Plan or Order Development
When does Step 1 begin? What is the name of Step 1? - Answers -✔✔ Planning
Initiation - Joint planning begins when an appropriate authority(SECDEF, POTUS, of
CJCS, or subordinate commander when higher authority not directed) recognizes
potential for military capability to be employed in support of national objectives or
inresponse to a potential or actual crisiss.
Steps a commander does during Step 1. - Answers -✔✔ Receive planning guidance
Determine time available
Receive estimates and intel
Review current OE, Problem, and initial ops approach for campaign
Joint planning Critical purposes - Answers -✔✔ Strategic Level
Operational Level
Operational level - Answers -✔✔ once strategic guidance is given, planning translates
this guidance into specific activities aimed at achieving strategic and operational-level
, objectives and attaining the military end state. This level of planning ties the training,
mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, redeployment, and demobilization
of joint forces to the achievement of military objectives that contribute to the
achievement of national security objectives in the service of enduring national interests.
Strategic Level - Answers -✔✔ joint planning provides the President and SecDef
options, based on best military advice, on use of the military in addressing national
interests and achieving the objectives in the National Security Strategy (NSS) and
Defense Strategy Review (DSR).
What is step 2? What happens in step 2 - Answers -✔✔ Mission Analysis - Mission
analysis is used to study the assigned tasks and to identify all other tasks necessary to
accomplish the mission. The primary inputs to mission analysis are strategic guidance;
the higher headquarters' planning directive; and the commander's initial planning
guidance, which may include a description of the OE, a definition of the problem, the
operational approach, and initial intent. Mission analysis helps the CC and planners
understand the problem and purpose of the operation and issue appropriate guidance to
drive the rest of the planning process.
What is Joint Planning - Answers -✔✔ Joint planning is the deliberate process of
determining how (the ways) to use military capabilities (the means) in time and space to
achieve objectives (the ends) while considering the associated risks
Key components of Mission Analysis - Answers -✔✔ Specified Tasks
Implied Tasks
Essentital Tasks
CCIR's
Constraints
Restraints
Facts
Assumptions
Mission Statement
Step 2 Specified Tasks - Answers -✔✔ Tasks assigned to a subordinate commander in
a planning directive
Step 2 Implied Tasks - Answers -✔✔ Additional tasks the commander must accomplish,
typically in order to accomplish the specified and essential tasks, support another
command, or otherwise accomplish relevant to the operation.
Step 2 Essential Tasks - Answers -✔✔ Tasks that the command must execute
successfully to attain the desired end state defined in the planning directive.
