text: Command and Control During Multinational Operations
  Understanding the capabilities and limitations of intelligence operations greatly enhances the G-2 staff’s
  ability to produce a timely and accurate intelligence COP. Additional considerations for the G-2 include—
  • Managing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) allocation and collection.
  • Managing, planning, and maintaining releasable information.
  • Developing and answering commander’s critical information requirements.
  Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations (G-3)
  2-88. The G-3 is the principal staff assistant to the commander for operations. The multinational G-3s have
  knowledge of separate and combined capabilities and limitations of multinational forces. G-3s also
  understand key differences of multinational forces that inform operational risk. The multinational G-3
  considers the following:
  • The examination of ROE to ensure collective understanding of and usability by all forces.
  • The appropriate method to share information that works with national caveats and authorities.
  • The suitability of missions and assignment.
  • COP content and timing requirements.
  • The implications resulting from differences of national and administrative boundaries relative to
  historical events and cultural boundaries.
  • The required density, location, and available redundancy of liaisons and interpreters.
  (See Chapter 3 for details on operations.)
  Assistant Chief of Staff, Logistics (G-4)
  2-89. Planning and preparation considerations in multinational operations are extensive and may prove
  particularly challenging if overlooked. Early identification of agreements for sharing and the roles between
  the nations and forces involved is paramount. Like all other staff functional areas, considering differences in
  logistics capabilities, requirements, and limitations can inform operational and strategic risks and
  opportunities. All national forces can execute operations to meet the commander’s stated interoperability
  objectives, support the concept of operations, understand supporting information exchange requirements, and
  understand related management processes. Key areas the G-4 or S-4 considers:
  • National caveats related to the contracting, transport, accounting, use, and sharing of logistics
  requirements.
  • Differences in the capability and availability of supply chain mechanisms.
  • Differences in mortuary affairs processes.
  • Equipment maintenance times and recovery requirements.
  • Differences in national environmental policies.
  • Fuel quality requirements.
  (See Chapter 5 for sustainment challenges.)
  Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans (G-5)
  2-90. The assistant chief of staff, plans (G-5) is the principal staff officer for planning operations for the mid-
  to long-range planning horizons at division and higher echelons. The G-5, in conjunction with the G-3, has
  staff planning and supervisory responsibility for integrating multinational partner capabilities, anticipating
  and managing transitions, and managing bilateral and multilateral agreements within the multinational force
  as the mission dictates. Early in the planning process, the G-5 balances the diverse set of capabilities and
  limitations of the multinational force using the COP to assist with planning considerations across all staff
  sections. To manage transitions effectively, the G-5 develops plans with inputs from multinational partners
  and synchronizes plans through future operations and current operations to facilitate improved
  interoperability throughout the operations process. (See Chapter 3 for planning challenges.)
  Assistant Chief of Staff, Signal (G-6)
  2-91. Signal staffs in multinational operations determine what communications and information systems are
  contributed by each partner and their compatibility and interface with other components. The assistant chief