This manual, Joint Publication JP 3-16 Multinational Operations March 2019 does the following: • Describes the strategic context for multinational operations, discusses the nature and tenets of multinational operations. • Describes how security cooperation provides ways and means to help achieve national security and foreign policy objectives. • Outlines command and coordination relationships within national and multinational chains of command. • Discusses diplomatic and military considerations related to building and maintaining a multinational force. • Describes how language, religion, culture, and sovereignty considerations effect planning for multinational operations. • Outlines how land, maritime, air, space, information, and cyberspace operations are conducted in a multinational context.
