Army sets new strategic planning guidance.Improving joint logistics The art and science of planning and carrying out, by a joint force commander and staff, logistic operations to support the protection, movement, maneuver, firepower, and sustainmentof operating forces of two or more Military Departments of the same nation. See also logistics. capabilities is one of the strategic imperatives announced in the new Army Strategic Planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. Guidance (ASPG ASPG Advanced Software Products Group, Inc. ASPG Army Strategic Planning Guidance ASPG Azerbaijan Society of Petroleum Geologists ASPG Automated Data Processing Standards Policy Group ). The ASPG is a long-range planning guide that defines the Army's strategy for the next 10 to 20 years. Usually published every 2 years, this out-of-cycle revision of the 2004 guidance was necessary to meet requirements set forth in the Department of Defense Strategic Planning Guidance. Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey approved the new ASPG in January. The new guidance has 10 strategic imperatives. The other nine are-- * Implement transformation initiatives. * Improve capabilities for homeland defense. * Improve proficiencies against irregular challenges. * Improve capabilities for stability operations. * Achieve Army force capabilities to dominate in complex terrain. * Improve Army capabilities for strategic responsiveness. * Improve global force posture. * Improve capabilities for battle command. * Improve joint fires Fires produced during the employment of forces from two or more components in coordinated action toward a common objective. See also fires. capability. Three of the imperatives--improve capabilities for homeland defense, improve capabilities for stability operations, and improve proficiencies against irregular challenges--are new Army focus areas. The ASPG addresses the requirement for logisticians to provide a supply chain that reaches across a joint, interagency, and multinational theater. The means of accomplishing this include developing combat service support concepts, policy, and doctrine that support both theater-opening and distribution-based logistics and establishing end-to-end asset visibility. The format of the new ASPG makes it easier for the reader to understand the Army's strategic objectives and how the Army plans to achieve them. The 2005 ASPG can be found on line at www.army.mil/references. |
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