Operational Art in the Battle of la Drang Valley
Analyze a historical event from the perspective of the operational art & design concepts and terms from chapter IV, JP 5-0, Joint Planning and other appropriate joint doctrinal publications. Your analysis will address the following questions:
• What is the state of the Operational Environment?
• What is the enemy and friendly Center of Gravity?
• What were the military objectives that determined termination criteria and end state?
• What are the Lines of Operation? What are the Lines of Effort?
• What military resources are required in concert with possible civilian resources to accomplish that sequence of actions within given or requested resources?
• What is the chance of failure or unacceptable consequences in performing that sequence of military actions? How will I identify if one or more of them occur? What is an acceptable level of “failure”?
