Tellaria Andorria Vulcan Xindus Bolia Talax Cheron Kazon Arctus Roylan THE STAR ARCHIPELAGO The situation: The enemy (the Medians) have been detected moving forces into the Star Archipelago. The Star Archipelago is a confederated government comprised of the islands of Cheron, Andorria, Vulcan, Xindus, Bolia, Kazon, Tellaria, Talax, Roylan, and Arctus. There are numerous small isles that fringe the larger islands in the group. Little is known about these islands other than they sit astride key sea lines of communication and offer a jumping off point for attacks on our ally’s the homeland. The enemy movement into this area of operations is regarded with extreme worry. The Medians have occupied at least two of the islands, Xindus and Bolia. It is unknown, however, whether they occupy any other islands in the archipelago and if so to what extent. In fact, there is no estimation of enemy forces and types on Xindus or Bolia, only that within the past 90 days reports arrived of Median troops on these islands. The aggressive move by enemy military forces into the Star Archipelago during a time of open, unrestricted warfare elsewhere is viewed with alarm by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and orders have been issued that within three months US military forces must drive the enemy off the islands they have occupied and establish bases from which they can carry on future operations against the Medians. What We Know: The United States has never proactively concerned itself with military planning of any sort involving the Star Archipelago. For much of the last 300 years, this island chain has been under the colonial tutelage of foreign powers (which have changed over time). The result is that virtually nothing is known about the archipelago other than it exists in a tropical climate zone, the existing maps may be representative of size and relative location but are not accurate for location, distance, or any other land features. Trade with the islands is limited to agricultural products that are shipped in and out of all the islands in the group. Knowledge of the maritime conditions is little better. What is known about currents, depths, hazards, reefs, passages, etc., only exists because tramp merchantmen ply the waters. There are no modern navigation aids on the islands; merchant shipping uses only existing knowledge of points and soundings—based on their years of experience plying the waters. Because of prior colonial influences both English and Spanish are spoken among a limited number of the indigenous population, mostly abbreviated “pidgeon” English or Spanish. The indigenous population size and location is generally unknown, but most are spread along the coastlines near fruit and coconut plantations. There are a few larger villages. The largest known population center is on Bolia, the former colonial seat of government and now the archipelago’s administrative center. While nearl.

1. Tellaria
Andorria
Vulcan
Xindus
Bolia
Talax
Cheron
Kazon
Arctus
Roylan

2. THE STAR ARCHIPELAGO

3. The situation:
The enemy (the Medians) have been detected moving forces into
the Star Archipelago. The Star Archipelago is a confederated
government comprised of the islands of Cheron, Andorria,
Vulcan, Xindus, Bolia, Kazon, Tellaria, Talax, Roylan, and
Arctus. There are numerous small isles that fringe the larger
islands in the group. Little is known about these islands other
than they sit astride key sea lines of communication and offer a
jumping off point for attacks on our ally’s the homeland. The
enemy movement into this area of operations is regarded with
extreme worry.
The Medians have occupied at least two of the islands, Xindus
and Bolia. It is unknown, however, whether they occupy any
other islands in the archipelago and if so to what extent. In fact,
there is no estimation of enemy forces and types on Xindus or
Bolia, only that within the past 90 days reports arrived of
Median troops on these islands.
The aggressive move by enemy military forces into the Star
Archipelago during a time of open, unrestricted warfare
elsewhere is viewed with alarm by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
orders have been issued that within three months US military
forces must drive the enemy off the islands they have occupied
and establish bases from which they can carry on future

4. operations against the Medians.
What We Know:
The United States has never proactively concerned itself with
military planning of any sort involving the Star Archipelago.
For much of the last 300 years, this island chain has been under
the colonial tutelage of foreign powers (which have changed
over time). The result is that virtually nothing is known about
the archipelago other than it exists in a tropical climate zone,
the existing maps may be representative of size and relative
location but are not accurate for location, distance, or any other
land features. Trade with the islands is limited to agricultural
products that are shipped in and out of all the islands in the
group. Knowledge of the maritime conditions is little better.
What is known about currents, depths, hazards, reefs, passages,
etc., only exists because tramp merchantmen ply the waters.
There are no modern navigation aids on the islands; merchant
shipping uses only existing knowledge of points and
soundings—based on their years of experience plying the
waters.
Because of prior colonial influences both English and Spanish
are spoken among a limited number of the indigenous
population, mostly abbreviated “pidgeon” English or Spanish.
The indigenous population size and location is generally
unknown, but most are spread along the coastlines near fruit and
coconut plantations. There are a few larger villages. The largest
known population center is on Bolia, the former colonial seat of
government and now the archipelago’s administrative center.
While nearly all named islands in the archipelago are large
enough to host major airfields, there are no runways or air
traffic of any sort to and from the islands. Because of the
agricultural economy and reliance of merchant shipping for

5. transport of such products there hasn’t been an economic reason
to build modern air traffic facilities. It is believed the terrain is
too rough to build modern runways at a reasonable expense and
jungle or dense plantations cover practically all the island.
In addition to the unimproved infrastructure and in line with the
undeveloped agrarian economy there is known to be an
extremely limited coastal highway that circumnavigates Xindus,
and any roads on any other islands exist only to move
agricultural products to piers for shipping. Tellaria, Vulcan, and
Andorria are believed to have road systems, but given the
undeveloped nature of the economy, these are not expected to
be much more than tracks through the jungle to connect
plantations to rudimentary port facilities.
There is no known significant modern electrical power
generation on any of the islands, except Bolia. That power
generation capacity is limited to imports of fuel and
rudimentary generators. It is not believed that this power
production capacity provides 24 hour a day electricity to the
island of Bolia. There are no reports of power generation
anywhere else in the archipelago, though it is possible such
facilities exist. Therefore, communications, radio, telephone,
etc., is believed to be extremely limited and exists perhaps only
to contact shipping and for farm owners to communicate with
each other. If such communications exists, power generation
would need to exist in the small villages or on the farms and be
maintained by the owners.
There are no military forces per se that exist to defend the Star
Archipelago. The only means of resistance to the Median
invasion and occupation is dependent on the local police force.
The police are made up of locals on each island. They are
uniformed but do not carry weapons as a matter of practice.
Instead the police force is present to address minor crimes and
disputes. Any major crime, of which there has been none

6. committed in recent memory, would be referred to the
government administration on Bolia. There are enough
policemen to cover all populated areas and villages on all the
islands, but on Vulcan or Tellaria, for example, they do not
number more than perhaps 20-30 on each island. They present
no meaningful military force. For each island, the government
on Bolia has assigned a senior inspector of police.
The government on Bolia is poor, revenues amount to little
more than what is needed to pay for police and to collect taxes.
Modern public services like hospitals do not exist, all chronic
and acute hospitalization cases are dealt with by hospitals run
by various religious orders on Tellaria, Bolia, Xindus, and
Andorria. These hospitals are supplied by ship and are self-
supporting for food, electricity, and other hospital needs.
The presence of the Medians is known, but not their numbers or
whereabouts. It is possible they control the seat of government
in Bolia and have occupied other islands in strength. But any
estimate would be nothing but an uneducated guess. The main
concern is that Median occupation will lead to the development
of major airfields and an extension of enemy airpower that can
threaten allied mainland population and industrial centers. It
would also provide a base for the movement of several divisions
of enemy ground troops forward toward allied shores.
To date, the progress of the war for Media has been immensely
successful. They work to seize strategic islands, build airfields,
expand their ability to control the airspace and therefore to be
able to control shipping and movement. And to provide cover
for development of bases and further expansion. The apparent
goal of the Median government is to increase the cost of the war
and make the defense of such areas as the Star Archipelago so
costly that the US would sue for a cease-fire. After all, the
reasoning goes, why would the US have any interest in a series
of islands that barely have electricity, no running water, no

7. airports, natural resources, or large populations? The reasoning
of Median civilian and military leadership is to create the
circumstances in which the US would find it more profitable to
allow the Medians to occupy and develop than the exorbitant
costs involved in defending or engaging in open ground warfare
in the region.
The View of the Joint Chiefs:
Median expansion is inexorable. It will not stop until the enemy
is defeated and pushed back to status quo ante bellum. For 8
years the Median military has pushed outward. In many places
neighbors have simply surrendered before the fighting began, to
avoid the horrors of war. But this expansion has now pressured
the United States and its allies and trading partners. The
Medians show no signs of stopping and apparently intend on
expanding, militarily changing the trade equation. The friendly
flow of natural resources and supplies has been slowly squeezed
down and the latest move into the Star Archipelago appears to
potentially allow enemy airpower to severely disrupt sea lines
of communication and cut off the supply of natural resources
and products. This latest move has led the Joint Chiefs to
recommend that the US “draw the line” and initiate offensive
ground operations against the enemy, to push them back out of
the Star Archipelago, and to establish a military presence in the
region from which future military operations can be launched in
a larger strategy of driving the Medians toward an unconditional
surrender. The JCS recognize that the Medians have been
expanding for 8 years, essentially unchecked, so this decision to
launch this counterattack will be against a logistically extended
but well-trained and seasoned Median Army and Naval forces
(backed by aviation).
It is necessary to begin offensive ground operations in the Star
Archipelago within three months. The extremely short time

8. frame is based on a desire to prevent the Medians from
developing any airfields on the island or to accumulate a force
whose size would guarantee a major combat offensive. The best
avenue for limiting combat operations (at sea, in the air, or on
land) and preventing the Medians from establishing air
superiority over the Star Archipelago is an early offensive that
denies the Medians use of the area and drives them out of the
Archipelago all together.
Marine Division Commander:
The division commander has received a direct order to locate,
attack, and destroy or drive the enemy from the Star
Archipelago. Because of military commitments elsewhere the
forces available to the division commander are limited to those
directly under his command (one Marine division), including
two attached air wings, and a naval surface task force (including
surface combat vessels, a single carrier and its screen, and
transports and support ships). The naval task force is under
separate command and control from the Marine division
commander.
Because the only means to seize control of the Archipelago and
defeat the enemy is by landing troops across the beach (there
are no airfields), and because so little is known about the
enemy’s strength and disposition, efforts to develop an
operational plan must proceed in parallel with the development
of intelligence about the enemy, the terrain, the weather and
climate, the local population, and the maritime conditions.
Given that so little is known about any of these aspects, the
division and regimental intelligence staffs have been tasked
with organizing the collection of intelligence, identifying PIRs,
and working to feed that information into the operational
planning cycles.

9. G-2:
That’s you. Your job is to accomplish the following:
1) Develop a meaningful set of priority information
requirements (PIRs) broken down into the following categories:
a. Weather and climate
b. Terrain
c. Environmental conditions
d. Maritime conditions
e. Enemy strength and location
f. Enemy intentions
g. Enemy logistics
h. Human terrain and infrastructure
2) For each category above, list 4-5 PIRs
3) For each PIR identify where that information may exist. This
will become your laundry list of targets for intelligence
collection. Each target of collection MUST BE linked to a
specific PIR
4) For each target identify HOW you intend to collect that
information (which INTs are most appropriate for collection).
Limitation: you do not have access to space-based systems or
other national technical collection. Those assets are at capacity
and current dedicated to other missions. What you have
available is organic to your Marine division and the associated
naval task force.
You will deliver the following for this assignment:
1) Create and SUBMIT a chart that contains the above
information:
a. All PIRs
b. For each PIR a list of potential targets of collection
c. Methods of collection you recommend for each Target-PIR
combination

10. 2) Create and SUBMIT a textual description of your planned use
of
a. IMINT
b. HUMINT
c. ELINT
d. COMINT
e. OSINT
f. CYBERINT
g. MASINT
WEEK 5 FINAL PAPER INSTRUCTIONS
Final Paper
Your final assignment for this course is a Final Paper that will
focus on evaluating research studies and reports to analyze a
specific topic within a Health and Human Services research
area. You will select a topic area in Week Three of this course
that will be used for the Final Paper. Examples of possible
topic areas include:
· Program effectiveness of community-based mental health
treatment facilities.
· Perceptions of ethical competence among human service
professionals working in long- term care.
· Treatment intervention outcomes for veterans with post-
traumatic stress disorder.
· Characteristics of successful job placement programs for
special needs adults.
· Trends in health care legislation and impacts on health and
human service delivery.
For your Final Paper, you will elaborate on each section of your
Final Paper Outline from Week Three. You must utilize at least
eight peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last

11. 10 years; these will be the same sources that you identified in
your Week Three assignment. Your sources must present actual
research studies that correspond to the problem or background
of your selected topic area. Your Final Paper must address the
following:
· Describe your selected topic area. Your description of the
problem or background of your topic area should include more
detail than the overview you provided in Week Three.
· Summarize the components, attributes, and/or various
segments of the topic area you have selected. For example:
· What is the research problem or issue?
· Who or what is affected by this problem or issue?
· What are some specific examples of research studies,
evaluations, reports, literature reviews, etc. that address it?
· What are the findings of these sources, and what are their
implications on the health and human services field?
· Evaluate the research reports and/or theories from the studies
presented in your minimum of eight peer-reviewed resources.
This analysis should add to the exploration of the problem or
background of your selected topic area.
Writing the Final Paper
The Final Paper:
1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages (excluding the title
and reference pages) and formatted according to APA style as
outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
2. Must include a title page with the following:
a. Title of paper
b. Student’s name
c. Course name and number
d. Instructor’s name
e. Date submitted
3. Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct
thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.

12. 6. Must use at least eight peer-reviewed sources from the
Ashford University Library.
7. Must document all sources in APA style, as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
8. Must include a separate reference page, formatted according
to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.