I’m sitting here listening to Craig Wilson, chief of staff for U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (USJFCOM) Strategy and Policy Directorate, J5 at the USJFCOM booth on the last day of the 2009 Joint Warfighting Conference, discuss the Joint Operating Environment (JOE) and the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO).
Wilson said the central mission of the USJFCOM is to develop a blueprint of how military forces will conduct future operations and to test this blueprint in the most realistic and challenging ways possible.
“The first step in developing this blueprint is to understand the terrain upon which our structure is to be built,” Wilson said. “For USJFCOM this terrain is known as the future operating environment.”
Wilson explained the JOE provides a perspective on future trends, shocks, context and implications of future joint force commanders. The Capstone Concept for Joint Operations is the overarching concept for the family of joint concepts, presenting the chairman’s vision of how the future joint force will operate.
“The intent was to create a document that would provide the intellectual foundation for the military professional and for the development of future concepts,” Wilson said.
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