A note on the applicability of JP 5-00.1

The website for the Joint Chiefs of Staff has a page which deals with the status of publications. One of the links on that page is to a July 23, 2004, Joint Publication Status Report. The last page of that report shows a notation for JP 5-00.1 of "Cancel upon approval of 5-0." So what does this mean? The previous page of the report and this page show that JP 5-0 1) was originally published on April 13, 1995; 2) is currently under revision; 3) has been through drafts on June 1, 2001, August 24, 2001, and December 2002; and 4) is targeted for approval in October of this year.

My interpretation of this information is that JP 5-00.1 was indeed the publication applicable to the campaign planning for Iraq. My guess is that the final version of JP 5-0 will have some changes from JP 5-00.1, but that does not change my conclusion that JP 5-00.1 presents the doctrine relevant to the Iraq war, and that means I stand by my conclusion that the two people responsible for the planning for post-war Iraq are George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.