Introduction to Operations and Planning

General Considerations for Strategy

• The Effects-Based Approach to Operations
• Applying Airpower

• Threats to Operations
• Termination and Transition of Operations

• Operational Design Fundamentals
• Methods of Operational Design
• Practical Design: The Coercion Continuum
• Planning Operations: Air Force Planning in the Context of Joint Planning
• An Effects-Based Approach to Planning
• The Common Operations Framework: Execution
• Assessment: General Considerations
• Assessing Strategy
• Assessment Criteria
• Assessment Measures
• Assessment Interpretation

• Steady-State Design: Shaping the Operational Environment
• Steady-State Planning
• Steady-State Execution
• Steady-State Assessment

• The Joint Operation Planning Process for Air (JOPPA)
• Service Component Planning During Contingencies
• Contingency and Crisis Execution: The Tasking Cycle
• Contingency and Crisis Execution: Tasking Cycle Stages
• Operation Assessment during Contingencies and Crises