Research Catalog

Title

Strategies to tasks : a framework for linking means and ends / David E. Thaler.

Author

Thaler, David E.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rand Corporation.
• United States. Air Force.
• Project Air Force (U.S.)

Description

xiii, 55 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Strategies to tasks is a framework for force planning consisting of a hierarchy of objectives. This framework provides an audit trail from the broadest national objectives down to operational activities at the tactical engagement level. The framework is blind to Service and system. Strategies to tasks can benefit the Services in at least four ways by: 1) helping the Services understand and communicate how their activities support security needs; 2) serving as a common frame of reference for the Services so that all can "sing from the same sheet of music;" 3) providing a structure for assessing tradeoffs between operational alternatives; and 4) assisting in the development of new concepts for enhancing the nation's military capabilities.

Series Statement

Rand library collection

Uniform Title

Rand library collection

Subject

• Military planning > United States
• Strategic planning > United States
• Military planning
• Strategic planning
• United States

Note

• "Prepared for the United States Air Force."
• "Project Air Force."
• "MR-300-AF."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- A hierarchy of objectives -- Concepts for planning and prosecuting campaigns -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A : Operational objectives and tasks -- Appendix B : The "strategies-to-tasks" framework : a briefing.

ISBN

• 0833014617
• 9780833014610

LCCN

94152360

OCLC

• ocm29393582
• 29393582
• SCSB-2034441

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library