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 Command
mission and strategic goals
The United States Joint Forces Command
provides mission-ready joint-capable forces and supports the development
and integration of joint, interagency, and multinational capabilities to meet the present and future operational needs of the joint force
USJFCOM with its component commands will respond to combatant commanders’ operational requirements by providing timely and mission-ready joint capabilities. To accomplish this USJFCOM will become a harmonized force made up of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and civilians who excel at joint warfighting.
Together with the service headquarters and our interagency and multi-national partners, USJFCOM will achieve unity of effort to maximize our joint strengths. Not only will we be instrumental in winning the global war on terrorism, USJFCOM will anticipate and prepare for the future demands of the National Defense Strategy.
We are facing three major emerging threats, requiring us to be ready for three major forms of warfare.
Weapons of Mass Destruction: We must do everything possible to prevent the proliferation of these technologies and prevent their use. We must force ourselves to think the unthinkable, and be prepared to mitigate the chaos and destruction that would occur when one of these weapons is used, terminating any nuclear, chemical, or biological conflict as rapidly as possible.
Conventional Warfare: We face powers who wish to challenge us. These rising competitors have the resources to build large conventional armed forces fueled by powerful economies. We must maintain our conventional dominance - check-mating intellectually and materially any enemy who might consider taking us on in conventional warfare.
Irregular Warfare: We must move swiftly to make irregular warfare a core competency of the U.S. military. We must develop a mastery of irregular warfare comparable to that which we possess in conventional and nuclear warfare, leveraging our conventional dominance to asymmetrically improve in irregular war.
Striking A Balance
While working closely with all of our partners, we must develop and maintain a balance between supporting current operations and shaping the joint force that will fight in the future. We will strike this balance while developing and adapting internal USJFCOM processes to best serve our alignment and integration while seamlessly supporting the warrior at the fight, today and in the future.
Support to Current Operations
USJFCOM will continue to provide trained and ready joint forces to the combatant commanders in support of validated requests for forces. The command will also continue to provide timely and realistic joint training support to combatant commanders, services, and interagency and multinational partners.
Develop Future Operational Capabilities
USJFCOM will lead the effort to enable the development of a joint force based on small, high performing units that can confront any threat. We will provide a new concept for command and control that becomes more a concept of command and feedback. It must push knowledge to the lowest level, and allow for a clear communication of commander’s intent. We must not allow technology to serve as a replacement for rigorous training, sound doctrine, proven practices, and effective leadership.
Organizational Alignment
We will look hard at ourselves, aggressively seeking opportunities to ensure our scarce resources are properly aligned to our mission and priorities and spent wisely. Each member of our team must understand how his or her work contributes to the overall effort. Every partner has valuable contributions to make, and we must open the door to those contributions.
Our Goals
Make Irregular Warfare A Core Competency
We must urgently adapt our expeditionary and general purpose forces to fight the irregular and hybrid wars we will likely face for the foreseeable future, recognizing what is “asymmetric” or “irregular” to us today is wholly “regular” to our enemies.
Design Integrated, Properly Structured Command and Control
We must emphasize the human element in command and control and develop joint command and control policies and capabilities that enable decentralized decision making and initiative, including in degraded or hostile information environments.
Improve as Joint Force Provider
Effective and efficient use of our limited force capacity is imperative as we reset, reconstitute and revitalize our armed forces.
Accelerate Efforts toward a Whole of Government Approach
We will engage and collaborate at all levels and on all fronts to create a trust and understanding among joint and coalition forces, interagency partners and non-governmental organizations.
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