homework

Combatant Commanders have command and control of personnel and equipment in their area of operation (AO) and provide strategy and overarching analytical assessment for the President and the Secretary of Defense on global defense.  The CCMD plays a critical role within the Department of Defense Global Force Management Process by exercising command control (COCOM) over organizations assigned to their AO.  CCMD work with subordinate commands to meet the emergent requirements identified in a dynamic battlespace by maintaining posture strategy’s in a near-prior environment, while still some commander maintain logical equipment to for a Counter Intelligent and near-peer threats.  CCMD exercises the ability to provide an overall global reach, which requires the flexibility to rapidly supply, position, or reposition joint forces throughout the world.

Organizations are required to mobilize and deploy with their assigned MTOE to support contingency operations, spending millions of dollars to ship equipment to theater operations, but usually only using a fraction of the equipment shipped.  Once they return from theater, their equipment goes into reset to reduce their deployability and readiness for future missions.  If CCMD invested the money into maintaining and replacing the theater provide equipment (TPE).  Maintaining the enduring equipment sets in theater and shipping items back only for major resets every few years is likely to save hundreds of millions of dollars based on current rates (Mai & Harris, 2019).

The Combatant Commanders meet emergent requirements through assessing and reviewing strategic environments consisted of both allies and enemy threats.  They advise the higher authorities such as the President and the Secretary of Defense regarding missions, defense strategies, plans, and ongoing operations.  The CCMD advises on shortages and critical force capability deficiencies that may delay or interrupt the end state.  CCMD is part of the unified strategic directive to link national objectives to military strategy.  In accordance with the Global Force Management Implementation Guidance, emergent requirements are requests from a CCDR, USELEMNORAD, or NATO for units and capabilities that were not anticipated at the time of the CCDR’s annual submission and cannot be met by the requesting HQ, its components, or their assigned and allocated forces (Department of the Army, 2015, p. 2-6)

Reference

Department of the Army. (2015). How the Army runs Carlisle, PA: U.S. Army War College. Retrieved from https://sgm-a.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/institution/USASMA/SMC/AY19-20/SMC-DL%20PH2/F500%20Force%20Management/DFM%20Resources/How%20the%20Army%20Runs%20%28HTAR%29%202017-2018.pdf

Mai, M. & Harris, M. (2019). An enduring equipment set for CENTCOM. Retrieve from https://www.army.mil/article/215306/an_enduring_equipment_set_for_centcom