text: Security Force Assistance
  to focus combat power, enable situational understanding, and synchronize lethal and nonlethal effects. As a
  representative of the commander, SFA advisors must understand their own commander’s intent, guidance,
  mission, and concept of operations. They must also be technically and tactically competent to coordinate on
  behalf of their own commander, and with the partner FSF for tactical matters to achieve and maintain unity
  of effort.
  SFA PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS
  2-77. U.S. national, defense, and military security strategy provide the basis for the global, regional, and
  functional strategic end states specified in the JSCP. For each strategic end state, combatant commands must
  establish intermediate military objectives and goals the commands expect to achieve through their campaigns,
  as milestones to measure progress toward achieving directed end states. Combatant commands develop CCPs
  and contingency plans to achieve those end states.
  2-78. Theater armies play a critical role in the theater campaign planning process for SFA. Theater army
  staff organizations should be included in joint operational planning teams and planning conferences and
  tasked through a planning order or tasking order to develop supporting plans and participate in the combatant
  command development and implementation of those documents. This includes conveying Service and DOD
  functional equities to the combatant command and conveying combatant command equities to their Service,
  assisting with concept design (especially SFA developmental activities supporting theater-level intermediate
  military objectives), determining the resources required to execute identified steady-state activities, and
  developing a synchronization plan for these activities.
  THEATER CAMPAIGN SUPPORT PLANNING
  2-79. The JSCP provides measurable intermediate objectives and guidance for combatant commands,
  Services, and combat support agencies focused on planning and employing the joint force at current resource
  levels. The combatant commands develop their CCPs and each Service develops campaign support plans that
  describe how they will support the combatant command campaigns and articulate institutional or component-
  specific guidance. Theater armies develop a theater campaign support plan, an annex to the CCP. The theater
  campaign support plan serves as the mechanism between Army planning, programming, budgeting, and
  execution by, with, or through the theater army and supported by Headquarters, Department of the Army,
  ASCC, Army commands, direct reporting units, and National Guard Bureau plans. The purpose is to resource
  SFA activities that shape an OE and achieve CCP objectives and JSCP end states.
  2-80. For every operation, commanders gain a detailed situational understanding of an OE, including a
  thorough understanding of the partner FSF capacity and capability. Commanders then visualize a desired end
  state and construct a broad concept for shaping the current conditions toward that end state. Thorough
  conceptual design coupled with mission analysis provides the “big picture” and focuses the planning efforts
  thereafter. Successful mission analysis is crucial to developing well-formed objectives and establishing their
  causal relationship to particular theater strategic end states. Thorough, well-conducted mission analysis
  provides the SC and SFA planners answers to the following questions:
  * What has the theater army been tasked to accomplish, and how does the theater army support and
  resource those requirements?
  * What specific results are desired, and what is the desired strategic effect?
  * Where and when must the theater army achieve these results?
  * Why was the theater army given this task?
  * What limitations (for example, authorities) have been placed on the theater army, and for what
  purpose?
  OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
  2-81. SFA and associated SC programs, activities, and missions play a key role in understanding and shaping
  an OE. Effective SFA planning and assessments allow commanders to gain situational understanding of their
  operational environment, including the region and specific countries. These include existing defense