a. SOF are dependent on Service and joint logistics support as the primary means of support. Support for SOF is derived from Title 10, USC, Section 165, which states: “the Secretary of a military department is responsible for the administration and support of forces assigned to a combatant command.” After consultation with the Secretaries of the Military Departments, SecDef may assign the responsibility (or any part of the responsibility) to other DOD components, including CCMDs and defense agencies. The supporting DOD component is subject to the authority, direction, and control of SecDef and the authority of the supported CCDR.
b. DODD 5100.01, Functions of the Department of Defense and Its Major Components, directs the Secretaries of the Military Departments to provide logistical support for Service and all forces assigned to joint commands. This logistical support for all Services and forces assigned or allocated to joint commands includes SOF assigned or attached to TSOC or other joint special operations task organizations. SOF logistics support includes all the core logistics functions identified in this publication.
c. Title 10, USC, Section 164, and DODD 5100.01, Functions of the Department of Defense and Its Major Components, provide CDRUSSOCOM with DAFL over all assigned SOF, including SOF attached to the GCCs. The CDRTSOC is responsible for arranging Service-common logistic support to SOF before transferring OPCON to the GCCs for employment. GCCs exercise DAFL over their Service components to ensure SOF units receive necessary logistics support to accomplish their missions.
d. The theater Service components plus CSAs are responsible for providing Service- common support to respective service SOF operating in the CCMD AOR. SOF must obtain special operations-peculiar support from their respective USSOCOM component or USSOCOM.
e. USSOCOM and the Services currently maintain memorandums of agreements that articulate and clarify Service and USSOCOM funding responsibilities and procedures for determining Service-common and special operations-peculiar support for SOF equipping and training.
f. The CCMDs will ensure appropriate Service logistics support is made available through one of the logistics control options described in this JP. The CDRTSOC is the primary logistics control authority for SOF. The TSOC J-4 implements CDRTSOC guidance and coordinates with CCMDs, theater Service component commands, USSOCOM, and CSAs to receive Service-common support to SOF. USSOCOM advocates Service-common requirements with GCCs and Services as needed. Planners must be prepared to include the use of OCS for SOF requirements.
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1. Introduction
Joint logistics planning provides the process and the means to integrate, synchronize, and prioritize joint logistics capabilities toward achieving the supported commander’s operational objectives during all phases of plan development. This chapter is applicable to combatant command campaign plans (CCPs), subordinate campaign plans, campaign support plans, and contingency plans tasked in Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 3110.01, (U) 2015 Joint Strategic Campaign Plan (JSCP) (commonly referred to as the JSCP), or as directed by the CCDR. This chapter also addresses planning considerations, input and output products used by joint logisticians to create OPLANs and operation orders (OPORDs) that enable transition from peacetime activities to execution of orders. Focus is on the JPP in development of the theater logistics overview (TLO) as a segment of the CCP.
a. The requirement to perform joint logistics planning is derived from Title 10, USC, Section 153; (U) Guidance for Employment of the Force (GEF), the JSCP, and guidance provided in the JSCP-directed supplements and/or coordinating instructions.
b. Joint logistics planning is conducted under the construct of joint planning and the JPP addressed in JP 5-0, Joint Planning. Joint planning consists of planning activities associated with joint military operations by CCDRs and their subordinate commanders in response to contingencies and crises. It transforms national strategic objectives into activities by development of operational products that include planning for the mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, redeployment, and demobilization of joint forces and supporting contractors. Joint planning occurs at multiple strategic national and operation levels using process, procedures, tactics, techniques, and facilitating information technology tools/applications/systems aligned to the Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) and the Adaptive Planning and Execution (APEX) enterprise.
c. The TLO segment of the CCP articulates the overarching logistic architecture of the GCC’s AOR. It is the start point of subsequent JPP logistics planning for regional OPLAN development and other contingencies.
d. Technology is a tool that supports the joint logistics planning effort. Technology supports the range of logistics planning functions, from requirements determination to retrograde and disposal operations. Logistics planners should take advantage the ability to
“Logistics considerations belong not only in the highest echelons of military planning during the process of preparation for war and for specific wartime operations, but may well become the controlling element with relation to timing and successful operation.”
Vice Admiral Oscar C. Badger, United States Navy Address to the Naval War College, 1954
accurately access, track, collect, process, store, communicate, and analyze all logistic data (i.e., ITV) from all elements of the JLEnt in near real time when available.