This frameworks is a layered top-down view of PMESII-DIME in relation to national actors in any operational environment. The Operational Environment (OE) is shared across actors, with each actor striving to change the OE to their liking, through top down DIME strategies/decisions/actions that influence component PMESII systems, resulting in bottom up emergence of change/impact. The collective influences evolve the OE forward until some stable equilibrium is achieved.