Pentagon leaders have issued new force-planning guidelines aimed at providing combatant commanders far-reaching flexibility in identifying forces required to implement newly mandated regional campaign plans, according to documents and sources. The new "force apportionment construct" was handed down in the form of two secret, high-level planning documents: the Guidance for the Employment of the Force (GEF) and the 2008 Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP), sources told InsideDefense.com . A spokeswoman for the Office of the Secretary of Defense declined to...
