U.S. Army Europe Campaign Plan Podcast
Channel: U.S. Army Europe and Africa
Date: 2012-01-17

http://www.eur.army.mil

HEIDELBERG, Germany -- U.S. Army Europe has unveiled the new USAREUR Campaign Plan as part of the USAREUR Senior Leaders Forum.  

The campaign plan describes USAREUR's strategy for achieving its objectives, employing a strategy that follows four lines of effort, each with clearly defined objectives and the supporting tasks the Army in Europe uses to successfully accomplish each objective. It also includes an assessment plan that outlines USAREUR's methodology for evaluating the command's status and moving forward toward the plan's objectives.

Jesse Granger sat down with U.S. Army Europe's Commanding General, Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling, to get a brief overview of the plan and how it will affect the Soldiers of the U.S. Army in Europe. The General also shares some of the behind the scenes work that went on during development of the plan and how it works with the recently released U.S. Defense Strategy.

The plan supports higher level strategies, including the U.S. National Security Strategy, the U.S. European Command Strategy for Active Security and the Army Strategic Planning Guidance.

USAREUR supports those strategies via the four campaign objectives outlined in the plan:
• A Professional Force, built on a core of values, fitness and discipline.
• Capable and Committed Partners, developing relationships for successful combined operations.
• Strategic Stance, increasing U.S. strategic reach through stationing, multinational partnerships and proper use of resources.
• Strong Communities, building a culture of taking care of each other within the Army in Europe and host nation communities.
The plan shows how USAREUR will accomplish those objectives via four lines of effort:
• Plan, Train, and Execute Unified Land Operations
• Strengthen Alliances and Build Partner Capacity
• Man, Equip, Sustain, and Shape the Force for Employment by Multiple Combatant Commands
• Develop a USAREUR Standards-Centric Community

Two websites have been created to support the plan. An intranet site available to Army in Europe members can be found on the USAREUR portal, and allows visitors to view working progress on the campaign plan and take part in discussions of its development and execution. A public website allows anyone to get an overview of the plan and its workings.

The intranet site can be found at https://portal.eur.army.mil/sites/CMD/COS/urCmpn (available to .mil users only). The public site can be found at http://www.eur.army.mil/URCMPN.