Books in Development
Books in Development
Joint/Interagency SMARTbook 2 – Interagency Planning & Process
Joint/Interagency SMARTbook 3 – Information Operations
TLS6: The Leader’s SMARTbook, 6th Ed.
SMFLS5: The Sustainment & Multifunctional Logistics SMARTbook, 5th Ed.
Military Reference: Multi-Service & Specialty
BSS6: The Battle Staff SMARTbook, 6th Ed.
SUTS3: The Small Unit Tactics SMARTbook, 3rd Ed.
TLS5: The Leader's SMARTbook, 5th Ed.
SMFLS4: The Sustainment & Multifunctional Logistics SMARTbook, 4th Ed. (w/Change 1)
TAA2: The Military Engagement, Security Cooperation & Stability SMARTbook, 2nd Ed. (w/Change 1)
Military Reference: Service-level
AODS6-1: The Army Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 6th Ed. (w/SMARTupdate 1)
MAGTF: The MAGTF Operations & Planning SMARTbook
MEU3: The Marine Expeditionary Unit SMARTbook, 3rd Ed.
The Naval Operations & Planning SMARTbook
AFOPS2: The Air Force Operations & Planning SMARTbook, 2nd Ed.
Joint Strategic, Interagency, & National Security
JFODS5-1: The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 5th Ed. (w/Change 1)
Joint/Interagency SMARTbook 1 – Joint Strategic & Operational Planning, 2nd Ed.
CYBER1: The Cyberspace Operations & Electronic Warfare SMARTbook
CTS1: The Counterterrorism, WMD & Hybrid Threat SMARTbook
Threat, OPFOR, Regional & Cultural
CYBER1: The Cyberspace Operations & Electronic Warfare SMARTbook
OPFOR SMARTbook 3 - Red Team Army, 2nd Ed.
CTS1: The Counterterrorism, WMD & Hybrid Threat SMARTbook
TAA2: The Military Engagement, Security Cooperation & Stability SMARTbook, 2nd Ed. (w/Change 1)
Cultural Guide SMARTbook 1 – Afghanistan
Homeland Defense, DSCA, & Disaster Response
HDS1: The Homeland Defense & DSCA SMARTbook
Disaster Response SMARTbook 1 – Federal/National Disaster Response
Disaster Response SMARTbook 2 – Incident Command System (ICS)
Disaster Response SMARTbook 3 - Disaster Preparedness, 2nd Ed.
CYBER1: The Cyberspace Operations & Electronic Warfare SMARTbook
SMARTupdates
GBC Plastic-Comb Converted (Limited Stock)
SMFLS4: The Sustainment & Multifunctional Logistics SMARTbook, 4th Ed. w/Change 1 (Plastic-Comb)
SUTS2: The Small Unit Tactics SMARTbook, 2nd Ed. w/Change 1 (Plastic Comb) (PREVIOUS EDITION)
TLS5: The Leader's SMARTbook, 5th Ed. (Plastic-Comb)
CTS1: The Counterterrorism, WMD & Hybrid Threat SMARTbook (Plastic-Comb)
Previous Editions (Limited Stock)
JFODS5: The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 5th Ed. (PREVIOUS EDITION)
AODS5: The Army Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 5th Ed. w/Change 1 (PREVIOUS EDITION)
The Battle Staff SMARTbook, 4th Rev. Ed. (PREVIOUS EDITION)
JFODS4: The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 4th Ed. (PREVIOUS EDITION)
BSS5: The Battle Staff SMARTbook, 5th Ed. (PREVIOUS EDITION)
The Stability, Peace & Counterinsurgency SMARTbook (PREVIOUS EDITION)
MEU2: The Marine Expeditionary Unit SMARTbook, 2nd Ed. (PREVIOUS EDITION)
SMARTsets
The ''WARFIGHTING'' SUPERset (7 books)
The ''ARMY'' SMARTset (5 books)
The ''MAGTF + MEU'' SMARTset (2 books)
The 'JOINT FORCES + JOINT/INTERAGENCY' SMARTset (2 books)
The ''THREAT'' SMARTset (3 books)
The ''DISASTER RESPONSE'' SMARTset (3 books)
The ''AIR FORCE'' SMARTset (3 books)
The ''NAVY'' SMARTset (3 books)
Joint/Interagency SMARTbook 2 – Interagency Planning & Process


Release Note :Projected 2019
Michael A. Santacroce
Binding Type:Perfect Bind
Print Inside Pages:Black and White
Trim Size:5.5'' x 8.5''
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This book is currently in development.
Strategic, Interagency & Intergovernmental Planning
Joint operation planning consists of planning activities associated with joint military operations by combatant commanders (CCDRs) and their subordinate joint force commanders (JFCs) in response to contingencies and crises. It transforms national strategic objectives into activities of joint forces.
The Department of Defense (DOD) conducts interorganizational coordination across a range of operations, with each type of operation involving different communities of interests and structures. This is especially pronounced for domestic and foreign operations, which are governed by different authorities and have considerably different US Government (USG) governing structures and stakeholders.
This SMARTbook is currently in development, projected for release in 2019. The Lightning Press will offer three specific Joint-Interagency related titles, plus already offers “JFODS5: The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 5th Ed.” and more than a dozen related and supporting “military reference” and “national power” titles! (See “related titles” below.)
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Joint/Interagency SMARTbook 3 – Information Operations


Norman M. Wade
Binding Type:Perfect Bind
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This book is currently in development.
Multi-Domain Guide to IO & Information-Related Capabilities
All military activities produce information. Informational aspects are the features and details of military activities observers interpret and use to assign meaning and gain understanding. Those aspects affect the perceptions and attitudes that drive behavior and decision making. The JFC leverages informational aspects of military activities to gain an advantage; failing to leverage those aspects may cede this advantage to others. Leveraging the informational aspects of military activities ultimately affects strategic outcomes.
The information function encompasses the management and application of information and its deliberate integration with other joint functions to change or maintain perceptions, attitudes, and other elements that drive desired behaviors and to support human and automated decision making. The information function helps commanders and staffs understand and leverage the pervasive nature of information, its military uses, and its application during all military operations. This function provides JFCs the ability to integrate the generation and preservation of friendly information while leveraging the inherent informational aspects of military activities to achieve the commander’s objectives and attain the end state.
The instruments of national power (diplomatic, informational, military, and economic) provide leaders in the US with the means and ways of dealing with crises around the world. Employing these means in the information environment requires the ability to securely transmit, receive, store, and process information in near real time. The nation’s state and non-state adversaries are equally aware of the significance of this new technology, and will use information-related capabilities (IRCs) to gain advantages in the information environment, just as they would use more traditional military technologies to gain advantages in other operational environments. As the strategic environment continues to change, so does information operations (IO).
Regardless of its mission, the joint force considers the likely impact of all operations on relevant actor perceptions, attitudes, and other drivers of behavior. The JFC then plans and conducts every operation in ways that create desired effects that include maintaining or inducing relevant actor behaviors. These ways may include the timing, duration, scope, scale, and even visibility of an operation; the deliberately planned presence, posture, or profile of assigned or attached forces in an area; the use of signature management in deception operations; the conduct of activities and operations to similarly impact behavioral drivers; and the employment of specialized capabilities -- e.g., key-leader engagements (KLE), cyberspace operations (CO), military information support operations (MISO), electronic warfare (EW), and civil affairs (CA) -- to reinforce the JFC’s efforts.
Inform activities involve the release of accurate information to domestic and international audiences to put joint operations in context; facilitate informed perceptions about military operations; and counter adversarial misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda. Inform activities help to assure the trust and confidence of the US population, allies, and partners and to deter and dissuade adversaries and enemies.
The joint force attacks and exploits information, information networks, and systems to affect the ability of relevant actors to leverage information in support of their own objectives. This includes the manipulation, modification, or destruction of information or disruption of the flow of information for the purpose of gaining a position of military advantage. This also includes targeting the credibility of information.
This SMARTbook is currently in development, projected for release in late 2020. The Lightning Press will offer three specific Joint-Interagency related titles, plus already offers “JFODS5: The Joint Forces Operations & Doctrine SMARTbook, 5th Ed.” and more than a dozen related and supporting “military reference” and “national power” titles! (See “related titles” below.)
Related Books
TLS6: The Leader’s SMARTbook, 6th Ed.


ISBN-10 :1935886843
Norman M. Wade
Binding Type:Plastic Comb
Print Inside Pages:Black and White
Trim Size:5.5'' x 8.5''
Total Pages:392
This book is currently in development.
Military Leadership & Training in a Complex World
TLS6 is the sixth edition of The Leader’s SMARTbook, completely updated for 2021. TLS6 incorporates the full scope of new material from ADP 6-22 Army Leadership and the Profession (with Change 1), ADP 7-0 Training, and FM 7-0 Train to Win in a Complex World. Jam-packed at 392 pages, topics and chapters include military leadership (ADP 6-22); leader development (FM 6-22); coach, counsel, and mentor (ATP 6-22.1), team building; (ATP 6-22.6), military training (ADP 7-0), train to win in a complex world (FM 7-0); unit training plans, meetings, schedules, briefs; conducting training events and exercises; training assessments, evaluations and after action reviews.
Among professions, the Army Profession has unique characteristics because of the lethality of our operations. The Nation tasks the Army to do many things besides combat operations, but ultimately the primary reason the Army exists is to fight and win the Nation’s wars through prompt and sustained land combat, as part of the joint force. The Army must always be prepared to accomplish this mission through the application of lethal force.
Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the organization. As an element of combat power, leadership unifies the other elements of combat power (information, mission command, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment and protection). Confident, competent, and informed leadership intensifies the effectiveness of the other elements of combat power.
The Army depends upon itself to develop adaptable leaders able to achieve mission accomplishment in dynamic, unstable, and complex environments. A robust, holistic leader development program is essential. Through a mix of education, training, and experience, Army leader development processes produce and sustain agile, adaptive, and innovative leaders who act with boldness and initiative in dynamic, complex situations to execute missions according to doctrine, orders, and training.
Leaders have three principal ways of developing others. They can provide knowledge and feedback through counseling, coaching, and mentoring. The military is a team of teams composed of numerous organizations with one overarching common mission: win the nation’s wars. The ability to build teams through mutual trust and maintain effective, cohesive teams throughout military operations is an essential skill for all commanders, staffs, and leaders.
The Army trains to win in a complex world. To fight and win in a chaotic, ambiguous, and complex environment, the Army trains to provide forces ready to conduct unified land operations. The Army does this by conducting tough, realistic, and challenging training. Training is the most important thing the Army does to prepare for operations. Training is the cornerstone of readiness. Readiness determines our Nation’s ability to fight and win in a complex global environment.
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SMFLS5: The Sustainment & Multifunctional Logistics SMARTbook, 5th Ed.


ISBN-10 :193588686X
Norman M. Wade
Binding Type:Plastic Comb
Print Inside Pages:Black and White
Trim Size:5.5'' x 8.5''
Total Pages:368
This book is currently in development.
Guide to Operational & Tactical Level Sustainment
SMFLS5:The Sustainment & Multifunctional Logistics SMARTbook, 5th Ed. (Guide to Operational & Tactical Level Sustainment) has been completely updated for 2021. At 368 pages, SMFLS5 topics and references include the sustainment warfighting function (ADP 4-0); sustainment operations (FM 4-0), sustainment execution (logistics, financial management, personnel services, & health services support); sustainment planning; brigade support (ATP 4-90, Brigade Support Bn); division, corps & field army sustainment (ATP 4-93, Sustainment Brigade); theater support (ATP 4-94, Theater Support Command); joint logistics (JP 4-0); deployment & redeployment (ATP/JP 3-35); and more than a dozen additional new/updated Army sustainment references.
The sustainment warfighting function is the related tasks and systems that provide support and services to ensure freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolong endurance. Sustainment determines the depth and duration of Army operations. Successful sustainment enables freedom of action by increasing the number of options available to the commander. Sustainment is essential for retaining and exploiting the initiative. The sustainment warfighting function consists of four elements: logistics, financial management, personnel services and health service support.
Sustainment is essential for conducting operations and generating combat power as the Army performs its strategic roles. Sustainment provides the operational commander freedom of action, operational reach, and prolonged endurance necessary to shape operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat operations, and consolidate gains.
The effectiveness of the sustainment warfighting function is dependent upon actions of units and staffs at the operational and tactical levels. Execution is putting a plan into action by applying combat power to accomplish the mission. It focuses on actions to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative. Sustainment determines the depth and duration of Army operations. It is essential to retaining and exploiting the initiative and it provides the support necessary to maintain operations until mission accomplishment. Failure to provide sustainment could cause a pause or culmination of an operation resulting in the loss of the initiative.
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