At the national level

• Synthesize national military strategies, with emphasis on mobilization and logistic requirements, across the range of military operations.
• Evaluate the force structure requirements and resultant capabilities and limitations of US military forces and the associated risks that affect the development of national military strategy.
• Apply the concepts of the strategic decision-making and defense planning processes, with emphasis on military resource requirements, in support of US national military strategy in peace and war.
• Evaluate the advantages derived from joint action in planning, budgeting, organizing and executing national military strategies.
• Evaluate the principles of joint warfare, joint military doctrine and emerging concepts to joint, interagency and multinational operations, with emphasis on the resource component in peace and war.
• Evaluate the resource needs, both national and international, for national defense and the processes for converting resources into US military capabilities.

At the theater level

• Evaluate how joint and multinational campaigns and operations support national objectives and relate to the national strategic, theater strategic and operational levels in war.
• Analyze the role of information operations in national security strategy and national military strategy.
• Synthesize joint theater strategies to meet national strategic goals, with emphasis on logistic requirements across the range of military operations.
• Apply an understanding of the combatant commander’s perspective of the resources required to support campaign plans, to include mobilization, deployment and sustainment.
• Evaluate the organization, responsibilities and capabilities of military forces available to the Joint Force Commanders.
• Apply an analytical framework that incorporates the role that factors such as geopolitics, geostrategy, society, culture and religion play in shaping the desired outcomes of policies, strategies and campaigns in the joint, interagency, and multinational arena.