Duration: 4 Weeks

Purpose: To train field-grade officers in joint operations, decision-making and planning processes through formal lectures and ample case-study analysis.

Scope: This course is designed to train field grade officers to function as multinational and joint operations officers. The course is partitioned into four sections: joint planning, crisis action planning, regional contingency planning wargames. Joint planning training consists of instruction in deliberate planning (initiation, concept development, and plan development procedures), and Crisis Action Planning procedures (CAP). CAP also consists of planning for Operations Other Than War (OOTW) to include counternarcotics operations and security assistance. Case studies are presented to reinforce CAP planning steps. Regional contingency planning consists of mission analysis, planning guidance, staff estimates, commander's estimates, concept of operations, and concept review. The plan development phase includes force planning, support planning and the transportation plan. The joint operations wargame is conducted as a capstone exercise to integrate all previous joint operations instruction.

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(Copied from School of the Americas website, February 1998.)