Guidance

Defence guidance for integrated working

Guide to help defence personnel working at operational and tactical levels integrate effectively with partners across government and achieve UK objectives.

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Defence Guidance for Integrated Working

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This guidance reflects an increased emphasis by the UK Government on integration, and is the product of research within UK defence, drawing on expertise from across the Ministry of Defence (MOD), government and wider industry.

It follows the Integrated Review 2021 and the Integrated Operating Concept and contributes to impending doctrine from the MOD on integrated action.

This defence guidance draws on the foundations of the UK’s Fusion Doctrine. It’s intended to complement military doctrine, but is not doctrine itself. It should be used as a helpful reference when working alongside partners, rather than a step-by-step guide as such.

It also offers a way of operationalising strategic guidance for integrating with partners, and focuses on the planning and delivery of national security activities overseas, and sub-threshold activities where defence could be supporting different partners.

The guidance could also be useful for other areas, including UK-based activities, and for partners who work with defence.

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Published 13 June 2023

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