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CHAPTER 1

Introduction

The Global Intervention Joint Operations Executive (GIJOE) is a joint service agency of the United States Department of Defense tasked
with peace enforcement in conflicts where the National Command Authority (NCA) has determined the existence of a breach to the peace
that threatens the humanitarian and/or vital national security interests of the United States and its allies. Effective peace enforcement in
politically sensitive and hostile settings requires an adaptive rapid response force, highly-trained and skilled in the use of a wide range of
coercive military measures to help bring about conditions conducive to the establishment of a functional and stable framework for peace
and security. GIJOE is that rapid response force.

1-1. Mission.

a. GIJOE's mission is to plan and conduct small-scale conventional military operations and limited special operations in support of
peace enforcement objectives. The agency may conduct these tasks as part of a larger unilateral or multilateral military peace
enforcement contingent or it may perform these activities independently as a self-contained and self-sufficient rapid response force.
GIJOE actively fights belligerent parties in order to bring about a cessation in hostilities that will allow for the political and diplomatic
settlement and resolution of a conflict.
b. Conventional military activities conducted by GIJOE include the use of combat patrols to physically separate combatants to help
create or reinstate a ceasefire and to delay, disrupt, capture, or destroy belligerent forces or supplies en route to battle areas.
GIJOE has a limited capability to use its organic aircraft to conduct airstrikes against ground or naval objectives. Military force may
also be used to to effect the rescue and evacuation of victims of hostilities, provide security for humanitarian relief organization
(HRO) personnel, and create safe havens for affected civilians.
c. Special operations conducted by GIJOE primarily consist of short duration special light infantry strikes and raids which employ
specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, or capture designated targets in order to reduce belligerent parties' military
capabilities in situations where more conventional measures are untenable. GIJOE also has the ability to execute precision strikes
against belligerent facilities and installations by employing terminal guidance techniques for precision-guided munitions. GIJOE is
also authorized to use lethal force against unlawful combatants to preclude or preempt belligerent and terrorist activities in extremis.

1-2. Fundamentals of GIJOE operations.

The planning and conduct of GIJOE operations are defined by five fundamental characteristics:
a. Versatility
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GIJOE maintains competence across a wide range of functions and skills. Emphasis is placed on imaginative and innovative
training and planning and the use of multiple methods of insertion, attack, and extraction.
b. Initiative
GIJOE exhibits a willingness to take reasonable risks and strives to control events rather than allowing the operational
environment and the belligerent parties to dictate them. Planning and execution of operations anticipates belligerent actions
and takes these into account to fully disrupt attempts to continue hostilities.
c. Agility
GIJOE personnel have the skills, training, and situational awareness that enables them to take advantage of opportunities
that present themselves in the field, even in settings and situations not anticipated in planning. GIJOE is able to react
decisively to changes and maintain its initiative.
d. Depth
While primarily a combat maneuver unit, GIJOE also uses a wide array of organic informational and maneuver support
resources to affect the operating environment and conditions to be resolved. Planners use a multi-pronged but nonetheless
focused approach to achieving solutions to peace enforcement problems.
e. Synchronization
GIJOE relies on detailed and precise coordination and speedy execution of its activities to exploit belligerents' weaknesses
and mitigate their strengths.

1-3. Capabilities and Limitations.

a. GIJOE is capable of the following:

(1) Deploying quickly to conduct operations on all types of terrain and in all kinds of weather; infiltrating and exfiltrating an
area of operations by land, sea, or air using organic wheeled vehicles, small watercraft, and tactical airlift and assault aircraft.
(2) Conducting combat patrols to physically separate combatants to help create or reinstate a ceasefire and to delay, disrupt,
capture, or destroy belligerent forces or supplies en route to battle areas.
(3) Conducting operations to rescue and evacuate of victims of hostilities, provide security for humanitarian relief
organization (HRO) personnel, and create safe havens for civilians endangered by conflict.
(4) Conducting direct action operations such as short duration special light infantry strikes and raids which employ
specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, or capture designated targets in order to reduce belligerent parties' military
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capabilities in situations where more conventional measures are impractical or untenable.

(5) Executing precision strikes against belligerent facilities and installations by employing terminal guidance techniques for
precision-guided munitions launched from organic or external aircraft and indirect fire assets.
(6) Using lethal force against unlawful combatants to preclude or preempt belligerent and terrorist activities in extremis.
(7) Performing tailored intelligence and counterintelligence activities in support of peace enforcement goals, to include
surveillance and reconnaissance of assigned targets and named areas of interest.
(8) Performing tailored maneuver support activities in support of peace enforcement objectives, to include law enforcement,
CBRN decontamination, and mobility support operations—to include engineer reconnaissance, obstacle breaching, explosive
ordnance clearance, and IEDD operations.
(9) Conducting casualty evacuation.
(10) Operating for up to one week without resupply, and for longer periods when provided with accompanying or airdropped
supplies.
(11) Providing liaison, communication, and coordination personnel and equipment to integrate the deployed GIJOE elements
into the logistical, intelligence, and operational system of the supported peace enforcement contingent commander.

b. GIJOE has the following limitations:

(1) Limited offensive ground warfare capability against armored units in open terrain.
(2) Limited organic tactical airlift aircraft and assault helicopter assets.
(3) Limited capability to conduct airstrikes against ground and naval targets using organic multirole fighter aircraft.
(4) Limited capability to set up and operate drop zones, pickup zones, and landing sites for airborne operations, air assault
operations, air resupply operations, or other air operations.
(5) Limited organic air defense weapons.
(6) Limited organic indirect fire support.
(7) Limited casualty treatment capability.

1-4. Employment Considerations.

a. Peace enforcement cannot solve the underlying causes of conflict in most cases. GIJOE may be effective in forcing a ceasefire
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upon belligerents but it cannot, in and of itself, create the conditions for lasting peace and security. Resolution of the underlying
causes of a conflict requires political, humanitarian, and peacekeeping capabilities beyond the scope of GIJOE's peace
enforcement mandate.
b. GIJOE peace enforcement operations are likely to disregard state sovereignty, particularly if the mission takes place in hostile
territory controlled by a belligerent party opposed to the cessation of hostilities. For this reason, GIJOE is normally deployed
pursuant to international authorization except in cases where humanitarian or vital national security interests demand a rapid
unilateral peace enforcement response from the United States.
c. Unlike other conventional or special military operations, GIJOE operations are more constrained by political factors designed to
bring warring belligerent parties to the negotiating table.
d. GIJOE is not suited for transition to a peacekeeping force because it loses its neutrality status once it engages in combat and
likely will never be considered neutral again by the belligerent parties involved in a conflict. Additionally, conventional peacekeeping
forces—who lack the material means and psychological preparation to engage belligerents in escalating combat—and dedicated
special operations units—who are more accustomed to operating with a much more aggressive posture ill-suited for the peace
operations milieu—should not be used as a substitute for GIJOE in situations wherein the NCA has determined a need for the
deployment of a special operations-capable peace enforcement force.
e. GIJOE may be deployed to engage in combined training exercises with allies or to participate in military activities only tangentially
related to the task of peace enforcement in support of vital US interests.