COPC FLASHCARD| 70 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

joint planning correct answer: the deliberate process of determining how (the ways) to use military capabilities (the means) in time and space to achieve objectives (the ends) while considering the associated risks joint planning process correct answer: an orderly, analytical set of logical steps to frame a problem; examine a mission; develop, analyze, and compare alternative courses of action (COAs); select the best COA; and produce a plan or order first step in the jpp correct answer: planning initiation (at the strategic level, the President, SecDef, or CJCS, initiates planning by deciding to develop military options) second step in the jpp correct answer: mission analysis (CCDR and staff analyzes the strategic direction and derives the restated mission statement for the commander's approval) (joint force's mission is the task or set of tasks together with the purpose that clearly indicates the action to be taken and the reason for doing so) third step in the jpp correct answer: course of action (COA) development (a potential way to accomplish the assigned mission) fourth step in the jpp correct answer: course of action (COA) analysis and wargaming (closely examining potential COAs to reveal details to identify valid COAs) fifth step in the jpp correct answer: course of action (COA) comparison (each COA is evaluated independently against a set of criteria set by the staff and commander) sixth step in the jpp correct answer: course of action (COA) approval (staff briefs the commander on the COA comparison and the analysis and wargaming results, commander decides on a COA) seventh step in the jpp correct answer: plan or order development (produce CONOPs, centerpiece of the OPORD) first principle of planning correct answer: focuses on the end state second principle of planning correct answer: globally integrated and coordinated third principle of planning correct answer: resource informed fourth principle of planning correct answer: risk informed fifth principle of planning correct answer: framed within the OE sixth principle of planning correct answer: informs decisio