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Planning and Coordination
joint operation planning. Planning with intergovernmental organizations and NGOs is often
necessary, particularly if CO supports foreign humanitarian assistance, peace operations, and
other stability operations. Incorporating NGOs and their capabilities into the planning
process requires the JFC and staff to balance NGOs’ information requirements with OPSEC.
Additionally, many NGOs are hesitant to become associated with military organizations in
any form of formal relationship, especially in the case of conducting CO, because doing so
could compromise their status as an independent entity, restrict their freedom of movement
and even place their members at risk in uncertain or hostile permissive environments.
d. Multinational partners may use a different lexicon, assumptions, decision thresholds,
and operational constraints pertaining to CO. All of these will affect coordination,
integration, and execution and should be taken into consideration during planning.
For more information on multinational operations, see JP 3-16, Multinational Operations;
for more information on joint planning, see JP 5-0, Joint Operation Planning.
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