Assess Situation
- type: Activity
- Id: Assess Situation
- Documentation: Uses background information and local knowledge (DH)
(Checkmate) This updates the planning assumptions that went into the selecting of a Course of Action. The updating of these assumptions includes the validation of constraints and restraints, and of the political situation (and others - check Terri's notes). The bulk of this will be (input or output?) in a Planning Order
(DH 7Dec) Doesnt mtter if planning staff do it alone or with JFACC or JTF
Fundamentally a problem definition - what's te picture, what's wrong with the picture. Political situation, environment (geog, cultural, meteorologicl, toplogical constrints on action), alliances also important (friends, enemies, neutrls)
Probably someprojection of eents - what f we do nothig? what if we do something?
- Status:
- Predecessor: can be concurrent with obtain policy and guidance
- Successor:
- Component:
- Doer: Planning staff (and JFACC, or and JTF, or lone)
- Owner: Chief of plnns (or JFACC)
- Resource: use sintelligence & open source documents, personal experience & training, and guidance. Output is informl notes and situation maps; there is a portion in campaign pln which contains the assessment, but it's unlikely to be written up at this point.
- Interval: See obtain policy and guidance; always gets enriched over time
- Pre-Condition: Orders (from obtain policy ...), documents (or something!) nmed in Resources, someone with experience relevantto the situation, maps, 2 or more people, ...
- Effect: provides planning and evaluation context - reference all the time when you start to see what's chnged. Probably a frame of reference in comms 1 level up and down in the plnning hierarchy (probably doesn't survive down to the pilot level, probably does survive to support President's picture of events) - intended to foster good communiation between you & people who work for you
NOT much lterl communication - failure to get common situation assessment etween different components causes a lot of problems
These meeting will include Liaison Elements, but they don't formally report back to their own components
Sometimes CJTF may disgree with compnent commander (e.g. Schwarzkopf vs JFLCC-DS: S. considerd Rep Guard iportant, JFLCC didnt
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