Joint warfare is a

military doctrine Military doctrine is the expression of how military forces contribute to campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements. A military doctrine outlines what military means should be used, how forces should be structured, where forces shou ...

that places priority on the integration of the various branches of a state's

armed forces A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a ...

into one unified command. Joint warfare is in essence a form of

combined arms Combined arms is an approach to warfare that seeks to integrate different combat arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects—for example, using infantry and armoured warfare, armour in an Urban warfare, urban environment in ...

warfare on a larger, national scale, in which complementary forces from a state's

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, and

special forces Special forces or special operations forces (SOF) are military units trained to conduct special operations. NATO has defined special operations as "military activities conducted by specially designated, organized, selected, trained and equip ...

are meant to work together in joint operations, rather than planning and executing military operations separately. Its origins can be traced to the 1938 establishment of the

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht The (; abbreviated OKW ː kaːˈveArmed Forces High Command) was the Command (military formation), supreme military command and control Staff (military), staff of Nazi Germany during World War II, that was directly subordinated to Adolf ...

, the world's first joint higher command structure, though it should not be seen as the same level of "jointness" as U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The

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, which endorses joint warfare as an overriding doctrine for its forces, describes it as "''team warfare''", which "requires the integrated and synchronized application of all appropriate capabilities. The synergy that results maximizes combat capability in unified action." This priority on national unity of effort means practitioners of joint warfare must acknowledge the importance of the inter-agency process, including the priorities, capabilities, and resources of other non-uniformed agencies (such as

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) in

military planning A military operation plan (commonly called a war plan before World War II) is a formal plan for military armed forces, their military organizations and units to conduct operations, as drawn up by commanders within the combat operations process ...

. Military operations conducted by armed forces from two or more allied countries are referred to by the U.S. Department of Defense as combined operations.

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JP 1, "Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States"
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document) * Zaloga, Steven J. ''Sicily, 1943: The Debut of Allied Joint Operations'' (Osprey, 2013) 96 pp.

External links

The evolution of joint warfare - Joint Warfighting
Joint Forces Quarterly, Summer 2002
Toward Combined Arms Warfare: A Survey of 20th-Century Tactics, Doctrine, and Organization
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