Assignment: You will analyze a historical event from the perspective of the operational art & design concepts and terms from chapter IV, JP 5-0, Joint Planning and other appropriate joint doctrinal publications. You can analyze the entire campaign/operation, a single battle, or a group of battles from the campaign/operation. Your analysis will address the following questions:
What is the state of the Operational Environment?
What is the enemy and friendly Center of Gravity?
What were the military objectives that determined termination criteria and end state? (Ends)
What are the Lines of Operation? What are the Lines of Effort? (Ways)
What military resources are required in concert with possible civilian resources to accomplish that sequence of actions within given or requested resources? (Means)
What is the chance of failure or unacceptable consequences in performing that sequence of military actions? How will I identify if one or more of them occur? What is an acceptable level of “failure”? (Risk)