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The document provides NATO doctrine for a CJFACC in support of a CJTF. Additionally, it outlines the COMCJFACC's roles and functions and describes the general elements of a CJFACC HQ.

INTRODUCTION. Military operations, especially non-Article 5 Crisis Response Operations (CRO), will be increasingly conducted in a demanding combined and joint environment. To meet this challenge, the Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF) concept seeks to exploit the unique military capabilities of NATO nations and the forces of other contributing nations. Combined Joint Force Air Component Command (CJFACC) doctrine is aimed at supporting this concept by ensuring the seamless integration of air power from different Services and nations, including non-NATO nations. It is well established that unified purpose and action is essential to the effective employment of military forces. Experience has shown this to be especially true of air power. Unified purpose and action will be achieved by unity of efforts, centralised planning, and decentralised execution of air operations. Unity of effort is necessary to ensure effective and efficient use of air assets employed theatre-wide in a variety of missions. Centralised planning is essential for controlling and co-ordinating the efforts of all forces. Decentralised execution is essential to generate the required tempo of operations and to cope with the uncertainty, disorder and fluidity of military operations. Many components of the CJTF may operate air assets. An air asset can be defined as "any aircraft, helicopter or unmanned air vehicle", those which are integral to a surface component for it to achieve its mission, such as army aviation, are termed "organic" air assets. Although component commanders will normally retain command over their organic air assets, and contributing nations may limit the employment of their forces, all air operations in COMCJTS's Joint Operations Area (JOA) need to be coordinated by a single authority. To achieve this, COMCJTF will normally designate a COMCJFACC. Under the CJTF concept, the COMCJFACC is the key to the efficient coordination and/or control of combined/joint air operations in support of COMCJTF's joint campaign.