Joint Mission-Essential Tasks, Joint Vision 2010, Core Competencies, and Global Engagement Short versus Long View

IF THE US armed forces are to fight in the fu ture, at the op era tional or stra te gic lev­ els of warfare, they will do so jointly. A joint national military strategy sets the re quire ments for joint plans to be devel oped in the short term. These plans set objec tives for all uni fied com mand ers in chief (CINC) in their areas of respon si bil ity (AOR). The require ment that CINCs create various contin­ gency and other plans leads, in turn, to the crea tion of joint mission-essential task lists (JMETL) by CINC staffs and subor di nate joint com mands. JMETLs, which identify the perform ance of specific tasks to execute these plans suc cess fully, are then used by the CINCs and the Joint Staff to identify and fund joint train ing, de ter mine the di rec tion of joint doctrine devel op ment, and provide joint justi fi­ ca tion for various programs. With this identi fi ca tion of the CINCs’ im­ me di ate needs, the Joint Staff has recently moved to a vision of future direc tions, found