1-62. All Army forces undergo standardized training and education in troop leading procedures, the military decision making process, the mission command approach, the warfighting functions, and the operations process. Army special operations forces receive additional training and education in the joint processes that parallel Army processes. Army special operations forces use this training and education and structurally apply it to special operations conducted in support of Army, joint, or other Service commanders, and U.S. Ambassadors. The organization of common critical tasks through the Army warfighting functions of mission command, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection and the joint function of information—combined with the operations process of plan, prepare, execute, and assess—result in a unique operational approach. In addition, the operational approach is developed by applying planning considerations for special operations that require working with or through a foreign partner. Army special operations planners use a cognitive framework to determine how the right partner, at the right location, with the right capability enable the efforts in achieving a combatant commander’s campaign plan objectives and achieving the objectives in an ambassador’s country strategy. When large-scale combat operations are required, Army special operations planners leverage previous missions, particularly those that involved foreign partners, and visualize and describe operations through the Army operational framework—decisive, shaping, and sustaining operations; deep, close, support, and consolidation areas; and main and supporting efforts.