Required Readings for optimal course preparation:

• US Constitution

• National Security Strategy EXSUM

• National Defense Strategy EXSUM

• National Military Strategy EXSUM (please obtain classified version to review)

• Insights and Best Practices:  Authorities

• Insights and Best Practices:  JTF C2 and Organizations

• Insights and Best Practices:  Interorganizational Cooperation

• Globally Integrated Ops / Global Integration Framework Overview

• Unified Command Plan (please obtain CUI version to review)

• SOF Interagency Reference Guide

• JP 3-33 Joint Force Headquarters

• CJCSM 3105.01 Joint Risk Analysis

• Strategy for Operations in the Information Environment

Optional Resources

• From the Chairman - Strategic Challenges and Implications (Gen Dunford)

• Insights and Best Practices:  Joint Operations

• Command Senior Enlisted Leader Insights

• The Noncommissioned Officer and Petty Officer - Backbone of the Armed Forces

• NDS Fact Sheet

• Titles Paper

• NDAA Fact Sheet

• Apologetics Paper - Gen Kevin Chilton, USAF (Ret.)

• JADC2 Research Paper

• Information Operations Research Paper

Pod Casts

• TAIWAN, CHINA, AND THE POISON FROG STRATEGY (58 MIN) 

• STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DETERRENCE: WHAT ARE AMERICANS THINKING? (38 MIN)

• DETERRENCE AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE 21^ST CENTURY, WITH RET. GEN BOB KEHLER (25 MIN)

• THE KILL CHAIN: WHY AMERICA FACES THE PROSPECT OF DEFEAT (50 MIN)

• THE BACKBONE OF JADC2: SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS (43 MIN)

• INFORMATION OPERATIONS FOR THE INFORMATION AGE: IO IN IRREGULAR WARFARE (46 MIN)