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ADM 200 – Doctrine Assignment  

What is Doctrine 

  • Fundamental principles that guide employment of military forces in coordinated action toward common obj 

  • May include terms, tactics, techniques, procedure  

  • Not strategy, not concepts 

  • Authoritative but not directive 

  • Best practices and princioples backed by analysis, exercises, and wargames  

Types of Doctrine 

  • Capstone Doctrine – Highest level; states most fundamental and enduring beliefs  

  • Keystone Doctrine – Foundation 6 series of space doctrine publication – Personnel, Intelligence, Operations, Sustainment, Planning and Mission Command 

  • Tactical Doctrine – proper employment of military power; particular objectives and conditions  

Misconceptions 

  • You have to get something approved in doctrine before you can do it operationally. FALSE 

  • Doctrine =/= path to validate claim 

  • Doctrine should already be approved with fundamental principles  

  • Space Doctrine Note can help socialize a concept for approval and eventual incorp in a Space Doctrine Publication 

  • Doctrine IS NOT directive 

  • Doctrine is authoritative guidance, but CDRs can exercise judgment  

  • Doctrine can only include processes, procedures, or tactics used today 

  • Yes, but, also includes potential for future  

  • Doctrine is written for all to improve communications  

  • Yes it is not just written for the USSF 

Development Process 

  • Space Doctrine Publication 

  • Identify subject area, call SMEs, doctrine team shepherds document through process  

  • Space Doctrine Note 

  • Deliver concept to community  

  • Following approval/implementation, support the content development for associated SDP update  

  • Tactical Doctrine  

  • SMEs at Delta and Squadron levels are primary contributors  

  • Collaboratively developed, approved, and published  

 

GF 201 – US Gov’t and Interagency  

  • LO 1: Remember the instruments of national power and their relationship to the US Gov’t executive branch  

  • SOB1: Identify instruments of Nat’l Power  

  • Instruments of Nat’l Power: Diplomatic, Informational, Military, Economic 

  • SOB2: Match Dept of State and Dept of Defense descriptions and how they are used to wield instruments of national power 

  • Department of State (DoS): leads in developing and implementing the President’s foreign policy  

  • Department of Defense (DoD): Deter war and ensure nat’l security  

  • US Agency of Int’l Development (USAID): int’l development and disaster assistance through partnerships and investments  

  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA): Collect and analyze foreign intel and conduct covert action  

  • SOB3: Identify how US Codes Title 10, 50, and 32 direct or impact military operations  

  • Title 10: Armed forces, DoD, OTE 

  • Title 22: Security Assistance, DoS 

  • Title 50: War and Nat’l Defense, Intel community (CIA, NGA, NSA, USSF) 

  • Title 32: National Guard 

 

GF 202 – Nat'l Policy and Strategy  

  • LO1: Remember key characteristics of nat’l strategy 

  • SOB1: Order of precedence NSS, NDS, NMS 

  • National Security Strategy (President) 

  • National Defense Strategy (SecDef) 

  • National Military Strategy (CJCS)  

  • SOB2: Recall LOEs to achieve the goal of the NSS 

  • 1) Invest in tools of American power and influence 

  • 2) Build coalition of nations to better shape the global strategic environment 

  • 3) Modernize and strengthen the military  

  • SOB3 Recall 4 top-level defense priorities to strengthen deterrence as described in the NDS 

  • 1) Defend the homeland 

  • 2) Deter strategic attacks against the US, allies and partners  

  • 3) Deter aggression and be prepared to prevail in conflict 

  • 4) Build a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem  

  • SOB4: Identify the two priorities outlined in NMS 

  • 1) Integrate deterrence  

  • 2) Strategic discipline  

  • SOB5: Choose all objectives for which the USSF is responsible as laid out in National Space Policy  

  • Robust space domain awareness of all activities in space with the ability to characterize and attribute potentially threatening behavior  

  • Resilient space-enabled missions that reduce the impact or deny the effectiveness of adversaries’ actions 

  • Assured, credible, and demonstrable response to defend vital national interests in space  

  • SOB6: Recall the five pillars for enhanced stakeholder collaboration as outlined in National Cyber Security Strategy  

  • 1) Defend critical infrastructure 

  • 2) Disrupt and dismantle threat actors  

  • 3) Shape market forces to drive security and resilience 

  • 4) Invest in a resilient future  

  • 5) Forge international partnerships to pursue shared goals  

  • LO2: Remember basic facts of the competition continuum 

  • SOB1: Recognize the meaning of competition continuum 

  • Describes a world of enduring competition conducted through a mixture of cooperation, competition, and armed conflict  

  • Relationship b/w US and another strategic actor (state or non-state) concerning a set of specific policy objectives  

  • SOB2: Name the three elements of the competition continuum 

  • Cooperation – collaborate selectively, maintain, advance 

  • Competition – counter, enhance, contest, limit 

  • Conflict – defeat, deny, degrade, disrupt  

  • LO3: Remember the different levels of warfare 

  • SOB1: Recall the levels of warfare and their purpose  

  • Strategic Level – national policy, global strategy, theater strategy  

  • Operational level – campaigns, major operations 

  • Tactical Level – battles, engagements, small-unit / crew actions  

 

GF 203 – Comp Across the Areas of Responsibility  

  • LO1: Understand the instruments of nat’l power as they influence global, joint, all-domain operations across the strategic competition continuum 

  • SOB1: Interpret current events as they pertain to joint, all-domain operations 

  • SOB2: Characterize GPC as it unfolds across the AoRs 

  • SOB3: Characterize other regional and non-state actor threats as they unfold across the AoRs 

  • SOB4: Characterize the reliability of primary and secondary sources  

  • Primary sources: materials created AT THE TIME of the events you are researching, or by people who were involved in those events 

  • Original documents and eyewitness accounts (interviews, pictures/videos, biographies, etc.) 

  • Secondary sources: materials created or written by peoplpe who are removed in time from events – in other words, materials that provide an analysis of the events in question (articles, books, podcasts, documentaries, etc.)  

  • Reliability 

  • Determine intended audience 

  • Browse through table of contents and index  

  • Determine if content is fact, opinion, propaganda 

  • Is the coverage comprehensive?  

  • Watch the language 

  • Author’s sources  

  • Timeliness  

  • Is more than 1 viewpt presented  

  • Is info crowd sourced  

  • Pay attention to nature of source  

 

GF 204 – Geo for USSF Leaders  

  • LO1: Understand the unique geographical considerations within each Area of Operations that can influence global, joint, all-domain operations across the strategic competition continuum 

  • SOB1: Associate operational space products with locations and key terrain in the AORs 

  • Guardians need to better know the geography of their operating environments 

  • Training, planning, and conducting live space ops  

 

GF 205 – Warfighting Domains  

  • LO1: Understand the relationship and interdependencies between the warfighting domains 

  • SOB1: Associate the space domain to its interdependencies with other warfighting domains, the information environment, and the electromagnetic spectrum 

  • Warfighting  

  • Conventional Warfare – one side can impose its will on an enemy gov;t 

  • Irregular warfare – methods other than military warfare  

  • Domain = sphere of knowledge, influence, or activity  

  • Physical Domains: Land, Maritime, Air, Space 

  • Land – where people live, where the basis of nat’l power exists  

  • Maritime – oceans, seas, bays, estuaries, islands, coastal areas, seabeds, littoral zones  

  • Vast manuever space  

  • Inherently a permissive OE  

  • Air – atmosphere, Earth’s surface, extending to altitude where effects upon operations become negligible  

  • Degrees of control – no control, parity, air superiority, air supremacy  

  • Space – area above altitude where atmospheric effects on airborne objects become negligible  

  • Physical domain where mil, civil, and commerical activities are conducted  

  • Medium in, from, and to which activities are conducted 

  • LEO, MEO, HEO, GEO 

  • Space superiority = degree of control in space dom 

  • Offensive space ops = denial of an adversary’s freedom of access and action in space  

  • Enables employment of space capabilities in supporting joint ops in other domains  

  • Segments 

  • Orbital – space systems operating  

  • Terrestrial – operating in land, air, and maritime domains 

  • Link – operate in IE and EMOE 

  • Benefits  

  • Global perspective 

  • Agility 

  • Multi-user capacity  

  • Information Environment 

  • Have physical characteristics and are present in all domains 

  • Aggregate of social, cultural, linguistic, psychological, etc that affect how humans and automated systems derive meaning from, act upon, and are impacted by info 

  • Info advantage – operational advantage gained through the joint force’s use of information 

  • Info Power – ability to use info to support achievement of objectives and gain info advantage  

  • Electromagnetic Operating Environment 

  • Have physical characteristics and are present in all domains  

  • Electromagnetic spectrum – freq of EM radiation, organized by freq bands  

  • Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Ops – exploit, attack, protect, and mange EMOE  

  • Offensive and defensive  

 

GF 206 – Contemporary Operating Environment  

  • LO1: Remember the strategic factors in global GPC 

  • SOB1: Identify the two principle strategic competitors pf the US as described by the National Security Strategy  

  • PRC and Russia 

  • PRC: only country with intent and power to reshape int’l order (DIME), investing in modernizing military, central to int’l economy, US and China can exist peacefully 

  • Russia: pursuing imperialist foreign policy to undermine int’l order, interfere with US internal affairs (elections, social discord), domestic human rights violations and media control 

  • SOB2: Recall the persistent threats described in the National Defense Strategy  

  • North Korea 

  • Continues to threaten US and deployed forces with nukes 

  • Threatens regional stability  

  • Iran 

  • Regional nuclear threat 

  • Support terrorist groups and mil proxies 

  • Violent Extremist Organizations 

  • Global terrorist threats can reconstitute quickly 

  • SOB3: Recall gray zone activities from National Defense Strategy 

  • Gray Zone = coercive approaches that may fall below perceived thresholds for U.S. military action and across areas of responsibility for different parts of U.S. gov’t  

  • TLDR: coercive approaches that fall below the threshold of military action  

  • SOB4: Recall which adversary is deemed the pacing challenge per the National Defense Strategy and the National Military Strategy  

  • China = pacing challenge  

 

GF 220 – CJCS & Jt Staff 

  • LO1: Remember the roles and responsibilities of the Join Staff  

  • SOB1: Identify the statutory functions of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 

  • Appointed by the President  

  • Holds highest rank of the armed forces 

  • Principal military adviser to the President, SecDef, NSC, and HSC 

  • Develop and approve NMS 

  • 7 Statutory Responsibilities 

  • 1) Global military integration 

  • 2) Strategic direction of the armed forces 

  • 3) Strategic and contingency planning  

  • 4) Global force management 

  • 5) joint capability development 

  • 6) Joint force development activities 

  • 7) Comprehensive joint readiness and assessments  

  • SOB2: Recall the functions of the Joint Staff directorates in integrating and synchronizing DoD activities 

  • J1 - Manpower and Personnel 

  • J2 – Intelligence 

  • J3 – Operations 

  • J4 – Logistics  

  • J5 – Strategy, Plans and Policy 

  • J6 – Command, Control, Comms and Computer/Cyber 

  • J7 – Joint Force Development  

  • J8 – Requirements, Resources, and Assessments  

  • SOB3: Recall the purpose of global force management  

  • Enables DoD to meet intent of the strategic guidance contained in overarching defense planning guidance at acceptable risk 

  • Directed readiness 

  • Force ready and available to execute NDS within acceptable risk 

  • Assignment 

  • Distribute forces to Services, CCMDs, and NORAD 

  • Allocation 

  • C2 mechanism, temporarily adjust distribution of forces 

  • GFMAP – Action plan, guides and directs force management  

  • Apportionment 

  • Quarterly estimate of services’ abiltiy to generate force elements along general timelines for PLANNING PURPOSES  

  • Assessment  

  • Used to evaluate the Joint Force’s to meet global demands 

  • 1) annual directed readiness tables assessment 

  • 2) Directed readiness tables programmatic assesssment 

  • 3) Joint Assessment of Directed Readiness Tables Execution  

GF 221 – US Military Services 

  • LO1: understand service characteristics and responsibilities 

  • SOB1: Recall the background of each service 

  • Army  

  • 14 June 1775 – constitutionally mandated  

  • Initially heavily reliant on state militias, not large standing Army 

  • Called up for Shay’s Rebellion (1786) and Whiskey Rebellion (1791)  

  • War of 1812 – GB forced to accept status quo antebellum terms for peace 

  • Contributes to military competition by building and employing land force capability and capacity to support a broad range of policy choices  

  • Navy 

  • Est by Continental congress 13 Oct 1775  

  • Section 8 of US constitution gives congress power to provide a navy  

  • U.S. Civil War, 1861  

  • Spanish American War, 1898 

  • World War I and II 

  • Korea, Vietnam, Cold War, Persian Gulf 

  • Mission: Defend freedom, preserve economic prosperity, keep the seas open and free, remain prepared  

  • 5 Enduring functions 

  • Sea control 

  • Power projection 

  • Deterrence 

  • Maritime Security  

  • Sealift  

  • How 

  • Air warfare 

  • Air and Missile defense 

  • Expeditionary warfare 

  • Warfare in IE 

  • Strike warfare 

  • Surface warfare 

  • Undersea warfare  

  • Marine Corps 

  • Est. 10 Nov 1775 – 2nd continental congress authorizes two battalions of marines 

  • Revolution and the Barbary Coast 

  • The Halls of Monetzuma (Mexican-American War) 

  • Banana Wars and WWs 

  • Cold War and GWOT 

  • GPC – COIN transition to INDOPACOM conflict 

  • Roles and Functions 

  • Seize and defend advance naval bases 

  • Close air support 

  • Land and air ops for naval campaign 

  • Urban littoral complex expeditionary ops  

  • Conduct amphibious operations  

  • Primary responsibility for the development of amphibious doctrine, tactics, techniques, and equipment  

  • Security and stability operations  

  • Provide security detachments and units for service on armed vessels 

  • Provide security at US embassies and consulates  

  • Air Force 

  • Traces roots back to US Army Air Service, Army Air Corps, AAR 

  • WW2 – air power infuence 

  • National Security Act of 1947 – est USAF as separate and distinct service (18 SEPT 1947) 

  • CAP – 1948 auxilary of USAF 

  • Space Force 

  • 20 DEC 2020 – est with signing of 2020 National Defense Authorization Act 

  • Neer peer competition in space domain and national reliance on space activities 

  • Also funding  

  • OTE 

  • Transfer of mil members to SF 

  • USAF Space Command deactivated  

  • USAF space prof transfer as first USSF guardians 

  • IST programs select qualified members from joint force 

  • Mission – secure our nation’s interests in, from, and to space 

  • 4C’s - character, commitment, courage, connection 

  • SOB2: Differentiate key organizational and command and control concepts of the services 

  • Army 

  • Army Commands 

  • Army Futures Command – develop and deliver future force req’s  

  • Army Materiel Command – acquisitons and logistics support 

  • Army Forces Command – trains, moobilizes, deploys, sustains  

  • Army Training and Doctrine command – recruits, trains, educate 

  • Enlisted, Officers, Warrant Officers  

  • Echelons 

  • Army Group 

  • Theater Army (field army) 

  • Corps 

  • Division 

  • Brigade (regiment) 

  • Battalion (squadron) 

  • Company (battery/troop) 

  • Platoon (detachment) 

  • Squad (section) 

  • Fire Team (crew)   

  • Navy 

  • NAVIFOR – develops and sustains a cadre of space professionals and develops, maintains, and oversees space training in fleet 

  • FLTCYBERCOM FCC – dual hatted supports both USCYBERCOM and USSPACECOM 

  • NNW – tailored reach back support to naval units req space capability support, SDA packages, and helps naval units and staff deveop Space Support Requests  

  • Enlisted, Warrant Officers, Officers 

  • Echelons 

  • Fleet 

  • Numbered Fleet 

  • Task Force 

  • Task Group 

  • Ship  

  • Department  

  • Naval Force Structure 

  • Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 

  • Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) 

  • Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG)  

  • Task Force (TF)  

  • Marine Corps 

  • Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) - reports to Sec of Navy  

  • Resides within the dept of the navy  

  • USMC does not fight wars, they provide marines and weapon systems to the COCOMs that do the fighting  

  • Focus on OTE in Marine Divisions  

  • USMC MARFORCOM 

  • Enlisted, Warrant Officers, Officers 

  • Echelons 

  • Marine Corps 

  • Marine Division 

  • Regiment 

  • Battalion 

  • Company 

  • Platoon 

  • Squad 

  • Fire Team 

  • Air Force 

  • Enlisted, officers, warrant officers (cyber)  

  • Total Force Airmen

  •  

  • AD, AFR, ANG, AF civilians, CAP  

  • Dept of AF 

  • Headed by civilian SecAF and CSAF and CSO 

  • MAJCOM 

  • Organized by mission or by region outside of US 

  • Mission 

  • Provide nation with global vigilance, global reach, global power 

  • Air Operations Center (AOC) 

  • Provides commanders with the ability to command and control (C2) air, space (for now) and cyberspace forces 

  • Decentralized execution principles described in USAF doctrine 

  • Joint Force air Component Commander (JFACC) gives guidance/intent/objectives to Air Operations Center who processes/outputs to different capabilities  

  • Air Tasking Order (ATO) 

  • Operational order or mission assignment for all aircraft missions flown under the control of the JFACC in the operational area  

  • Joint Integrated Prioritized Target List (JIPTL) 

  • Target list approved by JFC for ATO inclusion 

  • Space Force 

  • Organized within Dept of the Air Force 

  • Headed by SecAF, CSO, and Chief of Staff of AF  

  • Staffed by HQ AF and SF staff 

  • Command Hierarchy 

  • Field Command, Delta, Squadron 

  • Flat and agile structure 

  • Reduced bureacracy  

  • Enlisted and Officers  

  • Functions of Space 

  • Space Superiority – defend against space and counterspace threats  

  • OW, EW, SBM 

  • Global Mission Operations – integrate joint functions across all domains on a global scale 

  • Missile warning, sat comms, PNT 

  • Assured Space Access – deploy and sustain equipment in space 

  • Launch, range control, cyber, SDA 

  • Delta 5 CSpOC 

  • Executes C2 

  • Coordinates, plans, integrates, and synchronizes space effects 

  • Joint and multinational presence 

  • Combined Space Tasking Order (CSTO) 

  • Task and direct space forces to fulfill theater and global mission req’s 

  • CJFSCC + CDR USSF-S publish guidance/objectives/intent -> CSpOC who processes and outputs -> different capabilities  

  • SOB3: Recall how the services organize and present forces to combatant commanders 

  • Army  

  • Army Service Component Commands 

  • Present forces to various CCMD’s and allow US Army to exercise continuous oversight and control of Army troops supporting the joint fight  

  • Brigade Combat Teams (BCT)  

  • Maneuver against, close with, destroy enemy forces 

  • Principal ground maneuver units of a division  

  • Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT) 

  • Expeditionary, combined arms, in complex terrains 

  • Ground, air, land, air assault, or amphibious assault  

  • Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) 

  • Expeditionary combined arms force 

  • Seize and retain key terrain and conduct massed fire  

  • Maneuver, field, artillery, intelligence, signal, engineer, CBRN, and sustainment 

  • Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) 

  • Means of fire and movement, contrate overwhelming combat power, offensive, defensive, stability  

  • Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF) 

  • Rapidly field advanced, distributed capabiltiies that would complicate matters  

  • Navy 

  • Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 

  • Principal element of US power projection –focus on airpower 

  • Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)  

  • Maritime strike force that combines Amphibious Task Force with landing force of USMC 

  • Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 

  • Tailored for amphibious warfare  

  • Task Force (TF) 

  • Temporary, assembled for single task or activity  

  • Marine Corps  

  • Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAFTF) 

  • Fundamental organizational principal around which USMC deploys combat forces  

  • Integrated, combined arms forces that include air, ground, and logistic 

  • Special Forces MAGTF -> Expeditionary Unit -> Expeditionary Brigade -> Expeditionary Force  

  • Special Forces MAGTF – smaller than a MEU with tailored capabilities chose to accomplish a particular mission (crisis response, regionally-focused training exercises, peacetime missions)  

  • Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) - standard forward- deployed Marine expeditionary organization 

  • Self contained  

  • Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB) 

  • Mid-sized MAGTF conducts security ops, responds to larger crises, in major ops 

  • Reinforced infantry regiment, aircraft group, MLG 

  • Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) 

  • Principal MC warfighting org  

  • Amphibious assault, sustained ops ashore 

  • JTF HQ 

  • MARDIV, MAW, MLG 

  • 4 Key Elements 

  • Command element (CE) 

  • Ground Combat Element (GCE) 

  • Aviation Combat Element (ACE) 

  • Logistics combat element (LCE)  

  • Air Force 

  • AFFORGEN 

  • Prepare, Certify, Available to Commit, Reset 

  • 24 month period 

  • Ensures sustainableforce offering of Airmen and airpower to the Joint Force 

  • Building high end readiness -> deploy/response forces -> reintegration and reconsitute  

  • Force Generation and Force Elements 

  • Force Elements  

  • Mission Generation  

  • Open the Airbase 

  • C2 

  • Est Airbase 

  • Operate Air base 

  • Robust the airbase 

  • Demand force teams  

  • Multi-capable airmen (MCA) 

  • Trained and certified in several components  

  • Utility in Congested, Degraded, and Operationally-Limited environments  

  • Force Presentation 

  • Expeditionary Airbase (XAB) 

  • Force elements, may contain MCA 

  • Combat wings 

  • Deployable, in-place, or combat generation wing (units of action) 

  • USSF 

  • SPAFORGEN 

  • Core Areas: develop people, generate readiness, project power, develop integrated capabilities  

  • Prepare (21), Ready (42), Commit (105) 

  • Personnel reconsitution and leave; advanced training and exercise; resourced, validated, and ready for combat ops  

  • Units of Action under operational control of a Space Force Compent Commander = Space Mission Task Forces  

  • SOB4: Identify select service weapons and capabilities  

  • Army 

  • Small Arms (M9, M17/M18, M4A1, M series)  

  • Infantry Fighting Vehicles 

  • Stryker – M1126 Streker basis for great portion of US Army’s ground combat capability 

  • Bradley – basis of US Army infantry tactics  

  • Armored Combat Vehicles 

  • M10 Booker 

  • M1A2 SEP v3 Abrams 

  • Support Vehicles 

  • HMMWV, JLTV, MaxxPro, M-ATV, FMTV/FLTV 

  • Indirect Fires 

  • Mortars  

  • Electromagnetic Warfare 

  • Terrestrial Layer System (TLS) = multilevel approach to JEMSO mission  

  • Air Defense  

  • MIM—104 Patriot (PAC) - army’s standard air defense SAM 

  • Rotary Wing Aviation 

  • UH-60 Blackhawk 

  • Fixed Wing Aviation  

  • UAS, RQ, MQ 

  • Navy 

  • Aircraft Carriers (CVN) 

  • Submarines (SSN/SSBN) 

  • Destroyers (DDG) 

  • Cruisers (CG) 

  • Amphibious Assault Ships 

  • Littoral Combat Ships 

  • Others (frigates, fleet replenishment oiler, patrol boats, support boats)  

  • Combat Aircraft  

  • Electronic Warfare 

  • Maritime Patrol 

  • Transport 

  • Helicopters 

  • USMC 

  • Small Arms and Crew served weapons 

  • Every marine = rifleman  

  • Amphibious/infantry vehicles 

  • Provide MAGTF commanders with protection, payload, and performance 

  • Electromagnetic Warfare 

  • EA-18G grwler 

  • MADIS 

  • Both systems provide ground based air defense  

  • Rotary Wing Aviation 

  • Close air support  

  • Deep air support  

  • Air reconaissance  

  • Electronic warfare  

  • Fixed Wing Aviation 

  • Super unique 

  • Air Force 

  • Fighters/Attack aircraft 

  • F22, F35, F15C/E, F16, A10 

  • Bombers 

  • B-1B, B-2. B-52, B-21 

  • ISR aircraft 

  • RC, U2,MQ, RQ 

  • EM attack aircraft 

  • EC-130, EA-37B 

  • Aerial refueling aircraft 

  • KC135, KC46, KC10 

  • Airlift aircraft 

  • C5, C17, C130 

  • SpecOps and Personnel Recovery air craft 

  • AC130, MC130. HH-60G, CV22 

  • C2 aircraft and centers 

  • E3, E11, Falconer – AOC 

  • ICBMs 

  • Minuteman III 

  • USSF 

  • Orbital Warfare 

  • Knowledge of orbital maneuver, offensive/defennsive fires  

  • Space Electromagnetic Warfare 

  • Spectrum awareness and maneuver, non-kinetic fires, use of links 

  • Space Battle Management  

  • How to orient to space domain, decision making, identify hostile actions  

  • Space Access and Sustainment 

  • Knowledge of processes, support, and logistics, RESOURCES 

  • Military Intelligence 

  • Cyber Ops 

  • Engineering / Acquisition 

  • Service Capabilities 

  • Global Communications (Sat Comms) 

  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing capabilities 

  • Terrestrial Weather (environmental monitoring) and space domain awareness cap 

  • Space based missile warning and battlespace awareness cap 

  • SOB5: Identify interdependencies between the United States Space Force and other services 

  • Army 

  • Space and Missile Defense Command  

  • 1st Space BDE 

  • 100th Missile Defense BDE 

  • Space and Missile Defense Center for Excellence  

  • FA40 = Functional Area 40, Army Space Officers 

  • ARSST = Army Space Support Team 

  • SCPT = Space Control Planning Team 

  • SSE = Space Support Element  

  • 53rd Signal BN -> 53 SOPS (SHF SATCOM, DSCS + WGS)  

  • JTAGS (1st Space BN) -> 5 SWS (Theater Missile Warning)  

  • Navy 

  • 500+ Active-Duty Space Cadre 

  • Term used to describe personnel who poesses space ops or space aq AQD 

  • USN Space Capabilities  

  • 13 UHF SATCOM Satellites 

  • 1 FLTSAT (fleet sat) 

  • 5 UFO (UHF follow on) 

  • 5 MUOS (Mobile user objective system) 

  • 2 POLAR Satellite  

  • Aegis Cruisers with SM-3 

  • Integrated air and missile defense  

  • Distributed Maritime Operations  

  • Identifies 6 warfighting capabiltiies that align with seven join warfighting principles  

  • Space resource coordinator (SRC) 

  • USN’s space professional at TACTICAL LEVEL 

  • USMC 

  • MARFORSPACE  

  • USMC component to USSPACECOM 

  • Employs multidomain capabilities in order to create competitive advanatages that increase lethality, manueverabiltiy, and survivability  

  • Liason/support toles for MSST (Marine Space Support Teams) and help at the MEU/MEF level  

  • Consults USMC Component Commands  

  • USAF 

  • Closest partner 

  • AF operates bases, communicate globally, deliver care and services  

  • Suppreses threats against space systems operating outside of space domain and serve as critical enablers of space ops 

  • ANG – provide space electromagnetic warfare, missile warning, sat comm, spacecraft control sq to suppport  

  • USSF (summary of all above) 

  • Air and Army NG – provide space em warfare, missile warning, sat coms, and spacecraft control to supprt  

  • USAF – suppress threats against space systems operating outside space domain 

  • Army – leveraging capabilities for joint land ops to integrate space acriss all echelons and all joint functions; suppress threats targeting space segments outside of space domain 

  • Navy – maritimes support where space systems and services impact ops 

  • Marines – decentralized combined arms ops against adversaries  

  • USSOCOM (what USSF needs)  

  • Special reconaissance 

  • Direct action  

  • Security force assistance / foreing internal defense  

  • Security  

  • Assistance with personnel recovery  

  • USSOCOM (needs from USSF) 

  • Sat comms, PNT, ISR, Missile warning, counterspace 

  • SOB6: Recall the unique authorities of the United States Coast Guard 

  • US Coast Guard 

  • Under dept of Homeland Defense  

  • US Code, Title 14, Enforcing Maritime Laws 

  • Missions 

  • Maritime Law Enforcement 

  • USCG can board US flagged vessels suspected of smuggling illicit drugs  

  • Maritime Response 

  • Maritime Prevention 

  • Maritime Transportation System Managment 

  • Maritime Security Operations 

  • Defense Operations  

  • Operates under US Navy in times of war (US Code, Title 10)  

  • SOB7: Identify United States Special Operations Command service-like characteristics  

  • History and Background 

  • Office of Strategic Services i n WW2 

  • Army Rangers, Marine Raiders, AF Special Ops, Navy Seals, SF TBD 

  • 1987 following Operation Eagle Claw (which was a disaster) 

  • Service like responsibilities  

  • OTE to perform one or more core activities  

  • Retains, Employs, or Allocates forces to other Combatant Commands 

  • SERVICE LIKE RESPONSIBILITIES 

  • Develops doctrine and tactics 

  • Programs funds for future SOF reqs 

  • Controls special ops expenditures 

  • Trains assigned forces 

  • Validates req’s 

  • Ensures interoperability of equipment and forces 

  • Directs development and equipment acquisition 

  • C2 of US based forces 

  • Scalable to meet mission needs and/or multiple ops  

  • Presents forces to CCDRs 

  • SOF presented to commanders as JF