Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe Adm. Mike Mullen released his Guidance for 2005 on March 4. The document outlines strategic objectives as the Navy continues transformation. Mullen intends to create personal development plans for every Sailor in Navy Europe along with a theater-wide mentorship program. He also wants to build a Human Capital Strategy for Navy Europe. Among his guiding principles of alignment, commitment to change, effects-based thinking, and risk, he emphasized effects-based thinking. EB thinking stems from the concept of effects-based operations (EBO), which planners on the now-combined Naval Forces Europe/U.S. 6th Fleet staff have been employing for some time. EBO focuses all planning and execution efforts on the identification and achievement of specific end results, or “desired effects.” “EBO forces us to abandon pre-conceived notions about what we have traditionally done and think rather in terms of what we should do,” Mullen said.