Operations, Series 3-0 Publications, PDFs
JP 3-0, Joint Operations, 11 August 2011
This keystone publication forms the core of joint warfighting doctrine and establishes the framework for our forces’ ability to fight as a joint team.
This keystone publication forms the core of joint warfighting doctrine and establishes the framework for our forces’ ability to fight as a joint team.
JP 3-01, Countering Air and Missile Threats, 23 March 2012
This publication provides doctrine for joint counterair operations and protection against air and missile threats across the range of military operations.
JP 3-02, Amphibious Operations, 10 August 2009
This publication is a doctrine document in the joint operations series. It provides fundamental principles that guide the Armed Forces of the United States in the conduct of amphibious operations.
JP 3-02.1, Amphibious Embarkation and Debarkation, 30 Nov 2010
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-03, Joint Interdiction, 14 October 2011
This publication provides doctrine for planning, preparing, executing, and assessing joint interdiction operations.
JP 3-04, Joint Shipboard Helicopter Operations, 30 September 2008
This publication provides doctrine for planning, coordinating, and conducting joint shipboard helicopter operations from US ships with flight decks.
JP 3-05, Special Operations, 18 April 2011
This publication provides overarching doctrine for special operations and the employment and support of special operations forces across the range of military operations.
JP 3-05.1, Joint Special Operations Task Force Operations, 26 April 2007
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-06, Joint Urban Operations, 08 November 2009
This publication provides joint doctrine for the planning, execution, and assessment of joint operations in an urban environment and explains how they differ from operations undertaken in other environments.
JP 3-07, Stability Operations, 29 September 2011
This publication provides doctrine for the conduct of stability operations during joint operations within the broader context of US Government efforts.
JP 3-07.2, Antiterrorism, 24 November 2010
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-07.3, Peace Operations, 17 October 2007
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-07.4, Joint Counterdrug Operations, 13 June 2007
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-08, Interorganizational Coordination During Joint Operations, 24 June 2011
This publication provides joint doctrine for the coordination of military operations with US Government agencies; state, local, and tribal governments; intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector.
JP 3-09, Joint Fire Support, 30 June 2010
This publication provides fundamental principles and guidance for planning, coordinating, and executing joint fire support across the range of military operations.
JP 3-09.3, Close Air Support, 08 July 2009
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-10, Joint Security Operations in Theater, 03 February 2010
This publication provides doctrine for planning and executing operations to protect a joint security area in operational areas outside the homeland. It outlines the joint force commander’s responsibilities and discusses organizational options and command and control considerations across the range of military operations.
JP 3-11, Operations in Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Radiological (CBRN) Environments, 26 August 2008
This publication provides doctrine to assist commanders and staffs in planning, preparing for, conducting, and assessing operations in which their forces may encounter chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats and hazards.
JP 3-13, Information Operations, 13 February 2006
This publication provides doctrine for information operations planning, preparation, execution, and assessment in support of joint operations.
JP 3-13.1, Electronic Warfare, 25 January 2007
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-13.2, Military Information Support Operations, 07 January 2010, Change 1, 20 December 2011
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-13.3, Operations Security, 04 January 2012
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-13.4, Military Deception, 26 January 2012
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-14, Space Operations, 06 January 2009
This publication provides joint doctrine for planning, executing, and assessing joint space operations.
JP 3-15, Barriers, Obstacles, and Mine Warfare for Joint Operations, 17 June 2011
This publication provides doctrinal guidance for planning and executing barrier, obstacle, and mine warfare for joint operations as they relate to strategic, operational, and tactical mobility and countermobility across the range of military operations.
JP 3-15.1, Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Operations, 09 January 2012
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-16, Multinational Operations, 07 March 2007
This publication describes joint organizational structures essential to coordinate air, land, maritime, space, and special operations and it addresses operational considerations that the commander and staff should consider during the planning and execution of multinational operations.
JP 3-17 Air Mobility Operations, 02 October 2009
This publication provides joint doctrine for planning, employing, and assessing air mobility operations across the range of military operations.
JP 3-18, Joint Forcible Entry Operations, 16 June 2008
This publication provides the fundamental principles and doctrine concerning the command and control, planning, execution, and support of joint forcible entry operations.
JP 3-22, Foreign Internal Defense, 12 July 2010
This publication establishes joint doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States involved in or supporting foreign internal defense (FID). It discusses how joint operations, involving the application of all instruments of national power, support host nation efforts to build capability and capacity to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency.
JP 3-24, Counterinsurgency Operations, 05 October 2009
This publication provides joint doctrine for the planning, execution, and assessment of counterinsurgency (COIN) operations across the range of military operations. This will include the description of relationships between COIN, irregular warfare, counterterrorism, and foreign internal defense.
JP 3-26, Counterterrorism, 13 November 2009
This publication provides joint doctrine for the planning and execution of counterterrorism across the range of military operations.
JP 3-27, Homeland Defense, 12 July 2007
This publication provides doctrine for the defense of the US homeland across the range of military operations. It provides information on command and control, interagency and multinational coordination, and operations required to defeat external threats to, and aggression against, the homeland.
JP 3-28, Civil Support, 14 September 2007
This publication provides overarching guidelines and principles to assist commanders and their staffs in planning and conducting joint civil support operations.
JP 3-29, Foreign Humanitarian Assistance, 17 March 2009
This publication provides joint doctrine for planning, executing, and assessing foreign humanitarian assistance operations.
JP 3-30, Command and Control for Joint Air Operations, 12 January 2010
This publication provides joint doctrine for the command and control (C2) of joint air operations across the range of military operations and discusses responsibilities of a joint force air component commander (JFACC).
JP 3-31, Command and Control for Joint Land Operations, 29 June 2010
This publication provides doctrine for the command and control of joint land operations by a joint force land component commander JFLCC). It addresses considerations for forming and establishing a functional land force component with a designated JFLCC and for planning, execution, and assessment of joint force land operations across the range of military operations.
JP 3-32, Command and Control for Joint Maritime Operations, 08 August 2006, Change 1, 27 May 2008
This publication provides doctrine for the command and control of joint maritime operations throughout the range of military operations. It addresses command relationships and the considerations, procedures, and options for conducting joint maritime operations under a functional component commander.
JP 3-33, Joint Task Force Headquarters, 16 February 2007
This publication provides joint doctrine for the formation and employment of a joint task force (JTF) headquarters to command and control joint operations. It provides guidance on the JTF headquarters role in planning, preparing, executing, and assessing JTF operations.
JP 3-34, Joint Engineer Operations, 30 June 2011
This publication provides doctrine for the planning, command and control, execution, and assessment of joint engineer operations.
JP 3-35, Deployment and Redeployment Operations, 07 May 2007
This publication provides doctrine and principles for planning and executing deployment, joint reception, staging, onward movement, and integration, and redeployment of the Armed Forces of the United States.
JP 3-40, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction, 10 June 2009
This publication provides fundamental principles and guidance for combating weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery.
JP 3-41, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosives Consequence Management, 02 October 2006
This publication provides overarching guidelines and principles to assist commanders and their staffs in planning and conducting joint chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives consequence management operations.
JP 3-50, Personnel Recovery, 20 December 2011
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-52, Joint Airspace Control, 20 May 2010
Provides doctrine for the planning, execution, and assessment of airspace control during joint operations across the full range of military operations. It also discusses airspace control across the phases of military operations, emphasizing transitions from, and back to, civilian controlled airspace.
JP 3-57, Civil-Military Operations, 08 July 2008
This publication provides joint doctrine for the planning and conduct of civil-military operations (CMO) by joint forces, the use of civil affairs forces, the conduct of civil affairs operations, and the coordination with other capabilities contributing to the execution of CMO to achieve unified action.
JP 3-59, Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations, 24 September 2008
This publication sets forth the joint doctrine for the planning and execution of meteorological and oceanographic operations in support of joint operations throughout the range of military operations.
JP 3-60, Joint Targeting, 13 April 2007
Available through JDEIS.
JP 3-61, Public Affairs, 25 August 2010
This publication provides fundamental principles and guidance for public affairs support to joint operations. It also addresses public affairs operations and the role of public affairs in strategic communication.
JP 3-63, Detainee Operations, 30 May 2008
This publication provides guidelines for planning and executing detainee operations. It outlines responsibilities and discusses organizational options, and command and control considerations across the range of military operations.
JP 3-68, Noncombatant Evacuation Operations, 23 December 2010
This publication provides doctrine for planning and conducting joint noncombatant evacuation operations throughout the range of military operations. Specific information on repatriation operations is also provided.