![]() These “contingency plans” emanate from the six geographic combatant commands. Rather, the Department of Defense has a set of planned reactions for various regional contingencies. They just are not complete, or they are too limited in scope, not going beyond the military’s actions. Of course, today’s military does have plans-lots of them. These examples point to the value of what is sometimes called “Track II planning,” which is valuable in all cases, but is all the more important in preparing for potential future large-scale conflict. ![]() A review of two historical examples of such planning offer approaches to overcome organizational and institutional obstacles to effective comprehensive war planning. A war plan develops a concept to win a war militarily and politically it is the detailed ways and means of an overarching strategy. If we consider war to be a political act between two or more states, nations, or other polities, a war plan must consider the totality of those polities’ potential political objectives, industrial capabilities, and military options for the expected duration of the conflict. Developed between World Wars I and II, the collective color plans, mobilization plans, and Rainbow Plans considered operational, industrial, political, and civilian concerns. has had war plans before, and it needs to again. There is even a Global Integrated Base Plan. ![]() There are the Unified Command Plan, campaign plans, theaters of war, and regional theater strategies. The Department of Defense has no definition of “war plan” according to its own doctrine. ![]() ![]()
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