Third World arms proliferation and forced-entry operations: Circumstances demanding the creation of a standing Joint Task Force headquarters. Individual study project

Technical Report · Thu Mar 29 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6553178

Morgan, T C

Secretary Cheney's 1990 Annual Report to the President and the Congress established the requirement for the Unified Commanders in Chief to be prepared for Third World conflict involving roles and missions requiring, mobile, highly ready, well equipped forces and solid power projection capabilities. While the Services have forces that are prepared to execute the forced entry missions, what is missing is a joint operational level headquarters to command these joint forced entries. Our joint history highlights two critical points in this area. First is that our task organization is routinely a hastily formed Joint Task Force (JTF). The second and more critical point is that the operational-level headquarters is normally an aggregation of individuals brought together at the last possible moment. This combination along with the authors experience in the Second Marine Division from 1984-1989 in both join training and contingency situations (Solid Shields, Ocean Ventures, Joint Supporting Arms coordination Exercises and in the initial deployments and planning for operations in Panama) led to the thesis that a CINC requires a trained, cohesive, joint headquarters with an in-depth understanding of current tactics and a joint operational, combined arms vision to plan and execute forced entry against a Third World nation that possesses air defense and antiship missiles and main battle tanks.

• Research Organization: Army War Coll., Carlisle Barracks, PA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6553178
• Report Number(s): AD-A-223416/9/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

350000* -- Arms Control-- (1987-)
350200 -- Arms Control-- Proliferation-- (1987-)
45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
450000 -- Military Technology
Weaponry
& National Defense
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
AIRCRAFT
ARMS CONTROL
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
FOREIGN POLICY
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS
MILITARY PERSONNEL
MILITARY STRATEGY
NATIONAL DEFENSE
NORTH AMERICA
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PERSONNEL
PLANNING
POLITICAL ASPECTS
PROLIFERATION
USA
WEAPONS