The Joint Staff Officers Guide 2000

This is a practical and easily accessible guide for those new to the joint environment and staff assignments. With input from serving action officers and senior leaders, here are the competencies and behaviors of highly effective and successful joint staff officers which provide a roadmap for career self development. This is the most current joint information available for managing staff activities.

The Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) educates staff officers and other leaders in joint operational-level planning and warfighting and instills a commitment to joint, multinational, and interagency teamwork, attitudes, and perspectives. Pub 1 is the primary curriculum publication used by the faculty at JFSC to accomplish the college's educational goals and objectives in meeting this mission. It is a compendium of jointness that offers a perspective on joint planning and execution that is not found elsewhere, It presents the "big picture" of the players, the process, and the procedures, synthesizing elements from a wide range of sources, presenting them in a systematic manner. No other single publication so completely treats the subject of "jointness." In recent years, Pub 1 has become a more important document since joint professional military education became a shared responsibility, with Phase I taught at the Service schools and Phase II taught at JFSC. We also recognize that Pub 1 is considered the preeminent reference book for operators and planners throughout the joint and Service communities. To satisfy this broad audience we have made JFSC Pub 1 available in the Joint Electronic Library, which is accessible through desktop computers.

A single, useful volume to help you understand joint and multinational operational planning. It is a textbook to supplement the instruction of the Joint and Combined Staff Officer School at the Joint Forces Staff College.

"This handbook -- the Joint Officer Handbook (JOH) -- has been designed to accomplish three important objectives: Reduce the learning curve of staff officers before and immediately upon arrival, help staff officers develop a baseline of knowledge of each core competency deemed essential to staff officer job requirements and provide a reference guide for use during the joint assignment."--Page 1.