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The Joint Operating Environment: Challenges and Implications for the Future Joint Force
Title: The Joint Operating Environment: Challenges and Implications for the Future Joint Force
Date: November 2008
Institution: United States Joint Forces Command, Center for Joint Futures (J59)
Bibliographic Entry: “Challenges and Implications for the Future Joint Force.” Joint Operating Environment. United States Joint Forces Command, Center for Futures (J59). (November 2008).
http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2008/JOE2008.pdf
Electronic Link:
http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2008/JOE2008.pdf
Key Words: weak states, failing states, future joint force, Mexico, Pakistan
Summary of Key Points, Issues, Conclusions:
The Joint Operating Environment (JOE), a forward-looking effort to discern most accurately the challenges at the operational level of war and their inherent implications, compiles their attempted predictions to form a report that includes challenges and implications for the future joint force.
[See Part III, C]: The Contextual World, Weak and Failing States
This report introduces one dynamic in the literature of weak and failing states that receives relatively little attention, namely the phenomenon of “rapid collapse.” For instance, weak and failing states represent chronic, long-term problems that allow for management over sustained periods. The collapse of a state usually comes as a surprise, has a rapid onset, and poses acute problems. Pakistan and Mexico are highlighted within this section as worst-case scenarios.
Name of Researcher: Natalie Prendergast
Institution: Integrative Center for Homeland Security, Texas A&M University
Date Posted: February 24, 2009