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What is IPB?
systematic process of analyzing and visualizing the portions of the mission variables of the threat, terrain, weather, and civil considerations in a specific area of interest and for a specific mission.
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What are the four steps to IPB?
- Define the Operational Environment
- Describe Environmental Effects on Operations
- Evaluate the Threat
- Determine Threat Courses of Action
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Which publication addresses IPB?
FM 2-01.3
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Explain the difference between Operational variables and Mission variables?
- OV's facilitate the understanding of the OE and are directly related to campaign planning;
- MV's are those aspects of the OE that directly effect a mission.
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How many sub-steps are associated with Defining the OE?
- FIVE
- 1.Identify significant characteristics of the environment
- 2.Identify the limits of the command’s Area of Operation
- 3.Establish the limits of the Area of Influence and Area of Interest
- 4.Evaluate existing databases and identify intelligence gaps
- 5.Initiate collection of information required to complete IPB
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What are the military aspects of weather?
- Wind
- Atmospheric pressure
- Temperature
- Cloud Cover
- Humidity
- Visibility
- Precipitation
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What is the Military aspects of terrain?
- Observation and Fields of Fire
- Avenues of Approach
- Key Terrain
- Obstacles
- Cover and Concealment
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What are the four basic techniques to evaluate the terrains effects on COAs? (CABB)
- Concentric ring
- Avenue in depth
- Belt
- Box
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What are the civil considerations aspects of operations?
- Ascope
- Structures
- Capabilities
- Organizations
- People
- Events
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When describing the environmental effects on operations, what analysis is the staff focusing on?
How the environment will effect both threat and friendly operations.
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When describing the environmental effects on operations, which portions of the mission variables are we focusing on?
Terrain, weather, and civil considerations
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What are the two sub-steps in evaluating the threat?
- Update or create threat models
- Identify threat capabilities
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There are __________ fundamental areas in which one can begin detailed analysis of comprehending “the threat”.
17
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How many sub-steps are associated with "Update or create threat models"? What are they?
- 3
- Convert threat doctrine or patterns of operation to graphics
- Describe the threat’s tactics and options
- Identify high-value targets (HVTs) and high-payoff targets (HPTs)
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What is a Situation template?
A DEPICTION OF ASSUMED ADVERSARY DISPOSITIONS, BASED ON ADVERSARY DOCTRINE AND THE EFFECTS OF THE BATTLESPACE IF THE ADVERSARY SHOULD ADOPT A PARTICULAR COURSE OF ACTION
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What is a CCIR?
Commanders Critical Information Requirement
An information requirement identified by the commander as being critical to facilitating timely decision making
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What two key elements are included in a CCIR?
- Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIR)
- Friendly Force Information Requirements (FFIR)
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When determining likely threat COAs, what screening criteria do we utilize to analyze threat COAs?
- FASDC
- Feasible
- Acceptable
- Suitable
- Distinguishable
- Completeness
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What tools do we utilize to graphically depict enemy COAs?
Templates; THREATEMP, MCOO, SITEMP, EVENTEMP
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