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Author: Canada. Department of National Defence
Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 268
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The recent release of the new Commander s Handbook for an Effects-Based Approach to Joint Operations has rekindled the debate on the necessity of incorporating Effect-Base Operations (EBO) into doctrine. The foundation for this paper is based on three fundamental points. First, we have been conducting military operations to achieve effects in the past. Second, the current consternation is actually about the System-of-Systems Approach, not necessarily for or against the EBO concept. Third, total reliance on this System-of-Systems Approach is not the panacea to all military operations; in fact to do so could be detrimental to an Operational Commander. Lastly, this paper concludes that the Commander s Handbook for an Effects-Based Approach to Joint Operations should be withdrawn, that precise terminology must be used when developing doctrine or processes, and the System-of- Systems Approach should be used as part of the IPB process and indoctrinated at the service level.
Author: Andrew M. Dorman
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author examines the extent to which the United Kingdom (UK) has transitioned to effects-based operations to ascertain: (1) Areas where the U.S. Army could draw lessons from UK policies; (2) Areas where the U.S. Army and the British Ministry of Defence could develop integrated or complementary approaches and doctrines towards transformation for future alliance/coalition operations; and (3) Implications for the U.S. Army for working with the UK. This monograph is subdivided into four parts. Section 1 is a review of the evolution of British defence policy since the end of the Cold War and evaluates the degree to which it has adopted an effects based approach. Section 2 examines the British operational experience since the end of the Cold War including an analysis of the lessons learned and its experiences of working with allies. Section 3 analyses the UK's capability development through its doctrine and acquisition strategies. Section 4 evaluates the implications of these findings for the U.S. Army and makes 17 main recommendations.
Author: Colin B. Marcum
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-09-24
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781499739473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The inherent difficulty in developing and executing military courses of action to achieve the desired end-state comes from the complexities of the operational environment. Each environment contains within it different initial conditions that affect the nature of military operations with relationships that are as complex as they are numerous. This means that a similar course of action executed in a similar manner in one environment may not produce similar effects in another. This occurs due to the nature of those initial conditions, and how they alter the effects produced within that operational environment. The Effects-Based Board (EBB) seeks to provide clarity to an otherwise convoluted system of relationships by supporting the Combatant Command, and their joint staff, with a board of professional military and civilian personnel whose collective knowledge can help shape course of action development. Subject matter experts and liaisons from the Department of Defense, Department of State, national intelligence agencies, intergovernmental/non-governmental organizations, and foreign nations make up the membership of the board, and through their guidance can shape the development and execution of deliberate and crisis action plans. Identifying the initial conditions, determining the effects of their linkages, and creating courses of action that target those links in order to shape them can, in due course, shape the operational environment towards the desired end-state.
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 75
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report summarizes the activities accomplished by DMM Ventures Inc. under the Air Force Research lab Effectsbased Operations Advanced Technology Demonstration (EBO ATD). The effort focused on researching and analyzing improved operational concepts, processes and techniques for an effects-based approach to conducting military operations. The contractor developed in EBO concept of operations, and experimentation scenario (Operation Deny Force) that included data and plan elements, and various supporting materials dealing with Information Operations and coalition operations as they relate to EBO.
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Effects-Based Operations (EBO) is an emerging operational concept that seeks to obtain a desired strategic outcome or effect on the enemy through the synergistic and cumulative application of the full range of military and non-military capabilities at all levels of conflict. Most of the information written about EBO examines its utility at the strategic and operational levels, but there is a general lack of information on its relevance at the tactical level. This thesis compares the effects-based approach to operations against the current objectives-based approach to operations. The thesis suggests that EBO have tactical utility to the U.S. Army: that effects are more enduring than tasks. This approach directs action based on the effects that are desired, providing more enduring guidance than the use of tasks to direct action. The effects-based approach is more effective at directing action likely to move the state of conflict to the desired end state, while discouraging counterproductive action. Use of effects provides subordinates greater latitude in determining appropriate tasks, purposes, and methods, while ensuring actions are within the commander's intent. The approach fosters adaptive organizations through the requirement to assess results against the causal linkage between actions and effects; recognizes that actions create multiple effects, intended and unintended; and is better suited across the spectrum of operations because the analytical process is unchanged regardless of the operation. Finally, the effects-based approach provides greater opportunity for unified action from the tactical level through to the strategic level by breaking the conquest paradigm and recognizing that actions by military forces affect the military, diplomatic, informational, and economic lines of operations. This thesis measures EBO against three conditions: the contemporary operating environment, the Army Future Force, and tactical warfare. (2 tables, 9 figures, 33 refs.) 7.
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recent joint force thinking has espoused effects-based operations (EBO) as an evolutionary, some say revolutionary, approach to warfare. The 2003 Joint Operations Concepts document states, "The Joint Force uses an effects-based approach." With this in mind the primary question is, Can an effects-based approach to the conduct of joint close air support (CAS) improve achievement of the supported ground commander's intent? EBO history and theory are explored as well as the current state of joint CAS doctrine, demonstrating that EBO is conceptually well documented but effects-based ideas are just recently beginning to appear in joint publications. Current CAS doctrine presents the objective-based approach to warfare prevalent in most joint and service publications. Due to the lack of historical examples of effects-based CAS operations, the thesis uses a qualitative comparison of objective- and effects-based CAS to analyze the primary question. The analysis reveals an effects-based approach can improve achievement of the supported ground commander's intent to some degree over the current approach and suggests that EBO is an evolutionary development of objective-based operations that should be formally incorporated into the conduct of joint CAS.
