Jointness

Jointness

Jointness is an expression coined by the US Services to describe cross service cooperation in all stages of the military processes, from research, through procurement and into operations. Today, it is accepted by many advanced militaries including the Israeli Security Forces. Jointness is aimed at satisfying the requirements for increasing efficiency and economizing the security budget.

According to its definition, "Jointness" is: "the integration of the strengths of at least two limbs of the military in a coordinated effort to achieve a common goal". Jointness is an important factor in developing Joint Operations. It enables flexible leadership for the commander of a group, increases effective functioning, and creates an involvement between military limbs.

Jointness also creates the possibility for a new manner of warfare called Network-centric warfare. Network Centric Warfare is characterized by the representation and analysis of information, and its' transfer between agents and the center of command who may be distant from one another or even members of different units in the military. This new technology and outlook enable the military to improve operational efficiency in a way that was not possible in the past. What began as a gradual technological advancement within individual military limbs has grown to include several branches of the armed forces.

This approach views Jointness as key for proceeding flexibly in a changing world. It stresses conceptual flexibility which is obtained through the development of new mindsets and which precedes flexibility of power and resource.

Papers and Articles

* [http://www.carlisle.army.mil/library/bibs/joint02.htm] cite book|author= Shope, Virginia C|title=Jointness: A Selected Bibliography.|publisher=U.S. Army War College Library

Jointness (psychodynamics)

Jointness is a term ( [http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psc.046.0337a 1991] ) in psychodynamics, describing a new look at normal object relation that takes place in a third, joint, virtual space between entities (individuals) that are separated from the beginning of life (mother and newborn). In this type of transitional space the individuals jointly determine the extent of rapprochement between themselves while each of them is sensorily attentive to the strangeness and the separateness of the “non-self” that the other represents for him.

Papers and Articles

* [http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psc.046.0337a http://www.pep-web.org/]

* Solan, Ronnie (1998) Narcissistic Fragility in the Process of Befriending the Unfamiliar. 1998 Psychoanal. Amer. J. Psycho-Anal., Vol. 58:(2)163-186. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/u7724v377q74g405/ http://www.springerlink.com]

* Solan, Ronnie (1998b). The Narcissitic Vulnerability to Change in Object Relation. In Psychoan. In Israel (Theoriebildung und therapeutische Praxis). BlatteR Band 9. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gottingen.
* Solan, Ronnie (1999). The Interaction Between Self and Other: A Different Perspective on Narcissim. Psychoanal. Study of the Child, 54: 193-215.

Web Site

* [http://www.ronniesolan.com www.ronniesolan.com]


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