Topic: Northern stabilization (kurds)
References only from source documents uploaded.
EXAM SCENARIO:
The JFC and staff develop plans and orders through the application of operational art and operational design. For this scenario, you will assume the role of JFC. Once ready to begin the exam, use the link to obtain your published article identifying the problem and region. You are tasked to provide the strategic plans (operational design/approach) for a military option to address the issues/crisis. Your products must describe how (ways) the joint force will employ its capabilities (means) to achieve the military end state (ends). Clearly state your expected end state (United States’ national interests as stated in the National Security Strategy; security, prosperity, values and international order). You will have to make some assumptions in order to define the problem and the military options you plan to employ to solve the problem. Be sure to scope the problem and military options in order to keep this entire exercise within five (5) pages. It is highly recommended you review the JP 5-0 before beginning this exam.
Given a situation, develop an operational approach using design methodology. More specifically, your answer must address each of the below aspects of operational design.
1. Describe the current operational environment. 15% of paper
2. Define the desired operational environment. 15% of paper
3. Define the problem. 15% of paper
4. Develop an operational approach. 55% of paper use JP-05 and Chapter 12 Model for Northern Iraqi
how (ways) the joint force will employ its capabilities
(means) to achieve the military end state
(ends). Clearly state your expected end state (United States’ national interests as stated in the National Security Strategy; security, prosperity, values and international order).
EXAM CONTENT:
To support your operational design you may use any source assigned, provided, or introduced in the course to build your operational approach. Ensure each aspect of operational design methodology is present in your answer (figures and cognitive maps as found in JP 5-0 are appropriate for this assignment) and your analysis flows logically from one aspect to the next. You must document all your sources to avoid any possibility of plagiarism.
The article will identify a region/country and issues to be addressed. The student will have to make assumptions in order to define the issues at hand as well as the military action to address them. Clearly state your assumptions and the problem you will be solving.
Turkey and the Dream of Ottoman Revival; The Middle East isn’t returning to an era of Ottomanenforced
peace and stability–no matter how badly Ankara wants it
Author: Fradkin, Hillel; Lewis, Libby
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu recently visited Diyarbakir, the most important Kurdish city
in Turkey’s troubled Southeast. As the post-World War I political structure of the Middle East buckles, Kurdish
separatist ambitions have become an increasingly important issue, not just for Turkey, but for Syria and Iraq as
Mr. Davutoglu’s solution to the Kurdish problem is to turn the clock back 100 years, to the time before World
War I when the Ottoman Empire held sway. Yet the minister is less likely to see a new era of Turkish-enforced
Speaking at Dicle University in Diyarbakir on March 15, Mr. Davutoglu called the past century a “parenthesis”: a
departure from the authentic political order to which Kurds, Turkey and the Middle East will soon return. His talk,
titled “The Great Restoration: Our New Political Understanding from the Very Old to Globalization,” was colored
