Modification of the Planning Process for Sustainers Part 3: Orders Production, Rehearsals, and Sustainment Assessments

摘要

The planning process, beginning with Army design methodology and continuing with the military decisionmak-ing process, helps the planner prepare to create the operation order (OPORD). Once the staff produces an order, it must be rehearsed and assessed. In this article, we will discuss the orders production, rehearsal, and assessment processes. The doctrine describing the OPORD format is most applicable to corps-level orders production. This causes a bit of consternation for the sustainment planner. For sustainment commands, battalion and higher, Paragraph 4 (Sustainment) and Annex F (Sustainment) of the OPORD or operation plan describe the internal concept of support. Paragraph 3 (Execution) and Annex C (Operations) detail support operations and elaborate on the supported unit's internal concept of support.