Commander's Handbook for Assessment Planning and Execution

As the Joint Staff J-7 continues to interact with the combatant commands and Services, werecognize that there is very little "how to" doctrinal guidance on planning and executingassessments. Consequently, we have developed this pre-doctrinal handbook to help joint forcecommanders and their staffs understand the scope and importance of assessment and provideinformation and guidance on its process; best practices; planning, and execution. This handbookwas written to provide needed detail to m...