Organizing for Effect: Assessing the Institutional Machinery Needed to Effectively Conduct Effects-based Operations

摘要

This paper assesses the current state of joint organizational readiness to conduct Effects-based Operations (EBO). At the strategic level, the paper assesses the readiness of the national intelligence infrastructure to provide the 'deeper understanding of the enemy' that the EBO concept envisions. It also examines proposed reforms of the National Security Council interagency process and assesses the regional commanders-in-chiefs (CINCs) ability to influence the coordination of the DIME instruments of power at the national level. Findings include: (1) the intelligence community must streamline its activities if it is to provide the kind of understanding of the enemy that the EBO concept envisions; and (2) the NSC system is likely to complicate the conduct of EBO from the CINC's perspective. At the operational level, the paper assesses the suitability of the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review's proposed Standing Joint Task Force (SJTF) headquarters to support EBO. It finds that: (1) the SJTF benefits the EBO concept; (2) a higher-order effects cell should be established within the SJTF headquarters to help the commander plan for and measure higher-order effects; and (3) officers manning this cell should receive special training in the DIME instruments of national power.