Topic 17 CSG/ESG Planning Topic 17 CSG/ESG Planning ConsiderationsConsiderations

Enabling Objectives17.1 STATE the three levels of military planning.17.2 LIST and DISCUSS the basic planning principles.17.3 EXPLAIN the three products of Navy component planning.17.4 DISCUSS the purpose and use of OPGENs, OPTASKs, and OPSTATs.17.5 DISCUSS the Fleet Readiness Training Program (FRTP), to include phases and events.17.6 LIST some of the planning considerations for Operations, Intelligence, and Communications.

Basics of Planning

“There are three types of leaders:

Those who make things happen,

those who watch things happen, and

those who wonder what happened.”American Military Saying

Why We Plan

• Fundamental To Leadership

• Develop Planning Skills

“Cryptologic-capable”

Military Planning

• Levels of Planning– Strategic– Operational – Tactical

"A good plan violently executed NOW is better than a perfect plan executed next week....."

--General George S. PattonWar as I Knew It, 1947

Precepts of Planning

• Principles of War– Objective

– Mass

– Maneuver

– Offensive

– Economy of Force

• Cont’d– Unity of Command

– Simplicity

– Surprise

– Security

Planning Principles

• Relevance • Clarity• Timeliness• Flexibility

• Participation• Economy of

Resources• Security• Coordination

Military Planning Logic

MissionPhase 1

Commander’s Estimate

Course ofAction

Phase 2Commander’s

Plan

OrganizationTasks

Phase 3Commander’s

Directive

OrderPhase 4

Commander’s Supervision

Action

Planning Responsibilities

• National Planning• Joint Operational Planning• Campaign Planning• Naval Operations Planning

National Planning

National Security Council

Joint Strategic Planning System

Planning, Programming & Budgeting System

Joint Operation Planning and Execution System

Campaign Planning

Joint Operational Planning

Deliberate Planning Crisis Action Planning

OPLAN CONPLANFunctional

PlanCampaign

PlanOPORD

Campaign Planning

"(A) lesson of the Persian Gulf conflict is the importance, in a highly uncertain world, of sound planning. . . .Our response in the crisis was greatly aided because

we had planned for such a contingency."--Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, 1991

Naval Component Planning

• Commander’s Estimate• OPLANS• Directives

Navy Coordination

• OPGEN• OPTASK

• Air Defense• Intel• Communications• Link

• OPSTAT

Exercising the Plan

• Contingency Operations• Scheduled Deployments• JTFEX• COMPTUEX/ESGEX

N3 Planning Considerations

• Termination• End State Objectives• Effects• Decisive Points• Decision Points• Direct v. Indirect• Lines of Operations

• Timing and Tempo• Forces and Functions• Leverage• Balance• Synergy• Culmination

IO Planning Considerations

• Planning Initiation• Mission Analysis• COA Development• COA Analysis and Wargaming• COA Comparison• COA Approval

N2 Planning Considerations

• Intelligence Requirements• Personnel, Augmentation, Logistics,

Communications• Collection• Processing and Exploitation• Analysis and Production

• I&W, Current Intel, GMI, Targeting, Scientific and Technical Intelligence

• Evaluation and Feedback

N6 Planning Considerations

• Information Assurance• Multnational

Communications• Support to ISR• Interagency,

Intergovernmental, & Non-Governmental Communications

• WWW/Internet

• Information Management

• Joint Network Communications Control

• SATCOM Planning and Management

• EM Spectrum Planning and Mgmt