What does EBAO stand for?

military seems well on the way to repeating its dismal experience with an effects-based approach to operations (EBAO) by adopting major parts of the so-called systemic operational design (SOD) into Army and joint doctrine.

However, the Effects-Based Approach to Operations concept, when adopted, may offer the opportunity to invoke the confusion tactics of the former Flexible Response concept and combine them with the cooperation and collaboration methodologies offered by the current Strategic Concept.

One of the most significant doctrinal changes still under scrutiny is an effects-based approach to operations planning and execution which capitalizes on the integration of several joint planning and execution systems and models with established Army processes.

Highlighting airmen's physical presence in the war zone may offer one way of counteracting any potential public perceptions that the air Force is not fully engaged in the fight; however, an effects-based approach to operations would require the air Force to concentrate on producing desired effects overseas, regardless of whether those effects come from physically deploying equipment and personnel.

2) An effects-based approach to operations (EBAO) offers a "better way of expressing what Ebo really is," and Air force doctrine has recently adopted the term EBAO to add clarity to these concepts.

IO fits squarely within the doctrinal concept of the effects-based approach to operations, which states that USAF operations focus upon objectives--not platforms, weapons, or methods.

2) One of the bugbears that airpower's critics trot out to scare the faithful is the concept of the effects-based approach to operations (EBAO), which they also blame for the failure of the campaign.

The challenge lies in institutionalizing the potential of an effects-based approach to operations.