A Little Light Reading

Not enough hours in the day sometimes.  My list of reading ... which I brought home with me--JP 1 Doctrine for the Armed Forces; JP 3-0 Joint Operations; JP 3-18 Joint Forcible Entry Operations; JP 6-0 Joint Communications System; and some others including either joint or Army publications on Joint Deployment and Redeployment; and Special Forces Communications operations.  Got to be prepared in case I have to answer some questions tomorrow.

Joint Publication 6-0: The Revision

Joint Publication (JP) 6-0 was released under Admiral Mullen's signature on 10 June 2010.  We doctrine insiders at Fort Gordon were able to access it via the Joint Staff's website today.  Its full title is, Joint Communications System.  The manual was last revised on 20 March 2006.  The big things about this version are that--

• It updates the roled of the US Strategic Command in operating and defending the Global Information Grid (GIG).
• It updates information on Cyberspace and the role of the US Cyber Command.
• It updates Network Operations (NETOPS).
• It updates GIG characteristics (and notes that the GIG is rapidly evolving).
• It discusses the "aerial layer."  (as opposed to the terrestrial and space domains).
• Corrects factual errors due to procedural and organizational changes.