LESSON
PLAN 1.3
FOR
PRESIDENTIAL
DECISION DIRECTIVE 56
COMPLEX
CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS
PREPARED
BY
NAVAL
PREPARED
FOR
AUGUST
1999
Contents Page
Change
Record
Security
Awareness Notice
Terminal
Objectives
UNIT
1: PRESIDENTIAL DECISION DIRECTIVE
Lesson Topic 1.1 – Complex Contingency
Operations Overview
Lesson Topic 1.2 – Role of United States
Government Agencies
Lesson Topic 1.3– After Action Review
Lesson Topic 1.4 – Political Military Plan
Overview
UNIT
2: POLITICAL MILITARY PLANNING SCENARIO
Lesson Topic 2.1 - Develop a Political Military
Plan
TERMINAL
OBJECTIVES
1. Successfully
demonstrate an understanding of Presidential Decision Directive 56 in
accordance with the National Defense University Handbook for Interagency
Management of Complex Contingency Operations.
At
the end of this topic the trainee will be able to:
1. Describe the
vehicle used to provide strategy for dealing with Complex Contingency
Operations.
2. State the
purpose of the interagency After Action Review in Complex Contingency
Operations.
2. Determine the
role fo the ExCommM during After Action Review of the Pol Mil Plan.
Trainee Preparation:
A. Trainee
Support Materials
1. Complex
Contingency Operations Handbook
B.
Reference Publications: None
Discussion
Point
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Related
Instructor Activity
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1. Introduction. |
Establish contact. Provide background that may be of
interest to this topic. Motivating statements |
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2.
Purpose of
Interagency After-Action Review •
Goal is to identify strengths and weaknesses in
interagency procedures •
Continual improvement of the process for next operation |
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Refer Trainees to Appendix D of Handbook |
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3.
Interagency
Assessment Process •
Four components •
Collecting relevant information about what happened during
the planning, execution, and
transition phases of the operation •
Analyzing the information and determining useful lessons
to be learned •
Distributing those lessons throughout the interagency •
Integrating critical lessons into policies and procedures
so they can help improve
interagency operations during the next crisis •
After each CCO, ExComm charters the •
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4.
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Observations of agency officials concerning key events and
how these events were interpreted
by key players within the interagency •
Judgements on the quality of information and intelligence
provided to the interagency
concerning the situation on the ground •
Candid insights into specific organizational strengths and
weaknesses from various
perspectives •
Feedback and insights on the procedures used in both
planning and execution •
Details beyond those available in normal reporting •
Information can be used to either validate current
procedures or lessons learned,
modify them, or propose new ones •
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Give examples of lessons learned and
how incorporated into next CCO |
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5.
Role of
ExComm in After-Action Review •
Chair of the ExComm also chairs •
Includes at least all of the ExComm members •
ExComm determines the structure of the specific •
Should include •
Introduction (ground rules etc) •
Review of the pol-mil plan •
Events in theater •
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Specific lessons learned •
Conclusions •
Recommended changes to future implementation •
Results should be combined with other relevant reports and
briefed to the Deputies. |
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6.
Integrating
appropriate lessons from •
Lessons learned should be integrated into the policies and
procedures that will be used in the
next CCO. |
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7.
Summary and
Review 1. Describe the
vehicle used to provide strategy for dealing with Complex Contingency
Operations. 2. State the
purpose of the interagency After Action Review in Complex Contingency
Operations. 3. Determine
the role of the ExComm during After Action Review of the Pol Mil Plan. |
Lessons Learned Leads the |
8. Assignments
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8.
Review Annex A and Appendix B |