The Joint Operating Environment is intended to inform joint concept development and experimentation throughout the Department of Defense. It provides a perspective on future trends. shocks, contexts, and implications for future joint force commanders and other leaders and professionals in the national security field.

Joint and service concept development and experimentation applies innovation and change to the ideas and capabilities that animate U.S. military forces to ensure that they are adapted to the world in which they operate. The process of innovation and change relies on an ability to foresee and anticipate the key factors that shape the world and the challenges which are intrinsic to these factors. A forward looking, anticipatory view of change allows the United States to properly shape its forces so that they are prepared to deal with emerging challenges to our nation's security interests....

This Handbook for Military Support to Economic Stabilization is Book Four in a set of five handbooks developed to assist the joint force commander design, plan, and execute a whole-of-government approach. Included with the series is an overview J7/J9 Pamphlet, Executive Summary of the Unified Action Handbook Series, that describes the handbooks, suggests how they should be used, and identifies the significant interrelationships among them. This handbook outlines joint force support to economic development. It addresses conducting a comprehensive economic assessment, employment and business...

This Handbook for Military Support to Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure is Book Two in a set of five handbooks developed to assist the joint force commander design, plan, and execute a whole-of-government approach. Included with the series is an overview J7/J9 Pamphlet, Executive Summary of the Unified Action Handbook Series, that describes the handbooks, suggests how they should be used, and identifies the significant interrelationships among them. This handbook defines services essential to sustain human life during stability operations (water, sanitation, transportation,...

This Handbook for Military Support to Governance, Elections, and Media is Book Three in a set of five handbooks developed to assist the joint force commander design, plan, and execute a whole-of-government approach. Included with the series is an overview J7/J9 Pamphlet, Executive Summary of the Unified Action Handbook Series, that describes the handbooks, suggests how they should be used, and identifies the significant interrelationships among them. The last comprehensive guide to military governance was written in 1943. Combatant commanders have directed joint forces to rebuild media,...

Integrated financial operations are the integration, synchronization, prioritization, and targeting of fiscal resources and capabilities along with the related efforts of interagency and multinational partners and nongovernmental organizations against an enemy, and in support of the population, combined with minimizing the possibility that such resources/capabilities will be diverted or inadvertently misused to support an enemy's financial networks. Further, integrated financial operations encompasses more than simple fiscal policy and oversight-they entail using finances to support...

This Handbook for Military Participation in the Interagency Management System for Reconstruction and Stabilization is Book One in a set of five handbooks developed to assist the joint force commander design, plan, and execute a whole-of-government approach. Included with the series is an overview J7/J9 Pamphlet, Executive Summary of the Unified Action Handbook Series, that describes the handbooks, suggests how they should be used, and identifies the significant interrelationships among them. The handbook outlines joint force roles and responsibilities in the Interagency Management System...

The fires function and targeting process continues to mature at an accelerated pace as joint, coalition, and supporting forces remain engaged in on-going, high-tempo operations. These continuing operations reinforce the need for knowledgeable and efficient planners, targeteers, and weaponeers. Emerging technologies and joint warfighter experiences combine to turn lessons learned into improved and new joint fires and targeting planning, execution, and assessment best practices. Many of these innovative procedures are recognized by the joint community, but they are not yet approved joint...

Success of any mission requires quality people at the appropriate place and time. Effective personnel support is, therefore, the linchpin for successful joint operations. Joint Publication (JP) 1-0, Joint Personnel Support, represents our commitment to this vital operational readiness component. As the joint force continues to adapt to the changing security environment and evolves to meet the expectations of national leadership and the American public, JP 1-0 provides a baseline of validated procedures, processes, and systems to provide the flexibility, agility, and adaptability to meet the...

This publication provides joint doctrine and information for the planning, preparation, and execution of legal support to joint military operations. This publication has been prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and has been reviewed favorably by the General Counsel of the Department of Defense as the Chief Legal Officer of the Department. It sets forth joint doctrine to guide the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in operations and provides the doctrinal basis for interagency coordination and for US military involvement...