Joint warfare

Joint warfare

Joint warfare is a military doctrine which places priority on the integration of the various service branches of a state's armed forces into one unified command. Joint warfare is in essence a form of combined arms warfare on a larger, national scale, in which complementary forces from a state's army, navy, air, and special forces are meant to work together in joint operations, rather than planning and executing military operations separate from each other.

The United States Department of Defense, which endorses joint warfare as an overriding doctrine for its forces, describes it as "team warfare", which "requires the integrated and synchronized application of all appropriate capabilities. The synergy that results maximizes combat capability in unified action." This priority on national unity of effort means practitioners of joint warfare must acknowledge the importance of the interagency process, including the priorities, capabilities, and resources of other non-uniformed agencies (such as intelligence services) in military planning.

Military operations conducted by armed forces from two or more allied countries are also sometimes referred to as combined operations.

ee also

* U.S. armed forces United States Joint Forces Command and Joint Chiefs of Staff
* The National Security Act of 1947 and Goldwater-Nichols Act
* Contrast with interservice rivalry
* Battlespace

References

* United States Department of Defense publication [http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/new_pubs/jp1.pdf JP 1, "Joint Warfare of the Armed Forces of the United States"] (pdf document)

External links

* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0KNN/is_2002_Summer/ai_99817509/print The evolution of joint warfare - Joint Warfighting] , Joint Forces Quarterly, Summer 2002
* [http://books.google.ca/books?vid=ISBN1428915834&id=AUZdQaUesoMC&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&dq=isbn:1428915834&as_brr=1&sig=o4cWR6h0euilZvkWepNGlZwOyek Toward Combined Arms Warfare: A Survey of 20th-Century Tactics, Doctrine, and Organization] - Full view book on Google Book Search


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