tailieunhanh - Joint Operating Environment

The present decade has been marked by a retreat from social concerns. Scientists bring to our attention urgent but complex problems bearing on our very survival: a warming globe, threats to the Earth's ozone layer, deserts consuming agricultural land. We respond by demanding more details, and by assigning the problems to institutions ill-equipped to cope with them. Environmental degradation, first seen as mainly a problem of the rich nations and a side effect of industrial wealth, has become a survival issue for developing nations. It is part of the downward spiral of linked ecological and economic decline in which many of the poorest nations are trapped. Despite. | the JOEs Joint Operating Environment iTfa ga ySaX J ỊỨV kiWAAS-Vft ft -r H 1 s- - _. ft A. r K9MF 1 ready for today. preparing for tomorrow. r about this study The Joint Operating Environment is intended to inform joint concept development and experimentation throughout the Department of Defense. It provides a perspective on future trends shocks contexts and implications for future joint force commanders and other leaders and professionals in the national security field. This document is speculative in nature and does not suppose to predict what will happen in the next twenty-five years. Rather it is intended to serve as a starting point for discussions about the future security environment at the operational level of war. Inquiries about the Joint Operating Environment should be directed to USJFCOM Public Affairs 1562 Mitscher Avenue Suite 200 Norfolk VA 23551-2488 757 836-6555. Distribution Statement A Approved for Public Release United States Joint Forces Command the joint operating environment JOE Distribution Statement A Approved for Public Release February 18 2010 Government requests for the final approved document must be referred to United States Joint Forces Command Joint Futures Group J59 112 Lake View Parkway Suffolk VA 23435. Attention Joe Purser .