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Disadvantages Of Joint Warfare

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07/2015 JOINT LEADERSHIP COURSE

Individual Graded Essay

The advantages of joint warfare are best optimised by creating “one joint service” rather than integrating different services. Discuss.

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Hawk Syndicate
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“The advantages of joint warfare are best optimized rather than integrating different services because the joint commander has the command over the different services and the range of capabilities that no single service can provide.”

Introduction
Joint warfare means forces from a country 's Army, Navy and Air are forms to work together employed under command relationship, rather than planning and executing military operations separate from each other. Integration of different services was started …show more content…

The army, navy, air operations, fusion and intelligence collection, including logistics and communications that bring altogether the talents of more than one service. The fusion of information and logistics will further enhance any operation to provide rapid crisis response and deliver customise logistics packages directly to the strategic, operational, and tactical level of operations.[6]
Joint warfare analysis, which is done together with the various services at one place, is an important part of joint warfare as the information gathered can be used to support planning, real-time and post exercise force assessment, extrapolation of force capabilities, and alternative force evaluations. Gathering and sharing of this information (usually from a single service) provide joint operations planners, analysts and engineers, and users with invaluable insight into operational decision making which is important in any …show more content…

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Conclusion
In this essay, the various advantages and disadvantages of joint warfare are discussed. The advantages enable the joint commander to have a full range of capabilities when the various service join in a joint warfare and it will definitely increase lethality and synergy of the operation. The fusion of information and logistics will further enhance in any operation to provide rapid crisis response, to track and shift assets, and to deliver tailored logistics packages directly to the operations.[7]
On the contrary, the biggest challenge for the joint commander is to synchronise the doctrines from the different services and able to align the communication systems to overcome the disadvantages. This will tremendously improve operational efficiency in achieving objectives and minimising causalities, therefore, the important advantages of joint warfare can be best optimised rather than integrating different services as the joint commander has the command over the different services and the range of capabilities that no single service can

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