IPB FC

• Annex B - Intelligence
• Appendix 1 - Intelligence Estimate
• Annex K - Civil Affairs

• Decision Support Template
• Refined PIR, HVTs, and HPTs
• NAIs that support Decision Points
• Analysis of all enemy war fighting functions

FM 2-01.3 (FM 2-01.301)

• Define the operational environment.
• Describe the environmental effects on operations.
• Evaluate the threat.
• Determine threat courses of action.

• Concentric Ring
• Belt
• Avenue in Depth
• Box

• Analyze the military aspects of the terrain and weather (OAKOC & WATCH-VP).
• Evaluate the terrains effect on military operations (4 methods).

• Political
• Military
• Economic
• Social
• Information
• Infrastructure
• Physical Environment
• Time

• Mission
• Enemy
• Terrain & Weather
• Troops Available
• Time Available
• Civil Considerations

• Observation & Fields of Fire
• Avenues of Approach
• Key Terrain
• Obstacles
• Cover & Concealment

• Wind
• Atmospheric Pressure
• Temperature
• Cloud Cover
• Humidity
• Visibility
• Precipitation

• Areas
• Structures
• Capabilities
• Organizations
• People
• Events

A systematic process for analysing and visualizing portions of the Mission Variables, including threat, terrain, weather, and civil considerations, in a specific area of interest and for a specific mission. It is a continuous process that updates running estimates and supports MDMP.

A high payoff target is a target whose loss to the enemy will significantly contribute to the success of the friendly course of action.

A high value target is a target the enemy commander requires for the successful completion of his mission.

To reduce uncertainties concerning the enemy, terrain, weather, and civil considerations for all types of operations.

Parallel planning is two or more echelons planning for the same operation nearly simultaneously.

Collaborative planning is the real-time interaction among commanders and staffs at two or more echelons developing plans for a particular operation.

• Receipt of Mission
• Mission Analysis
• Course of action (COA) Development
• COA Analysis (aka Wargaming)
• COA Comparison
• COA Approval
• Orders Production

• Geographical Terrain (Hydro, Vegetation, Soil, Elevation).
• Climate and Weather (WATCH-VP)
• Human Terrain (ASCOPE)

• Identify Significant Characteristics of the Environment
• Identify Area of Operations
• Establish Area of Influence and Area of Interest
• Evaluate Existing Databases and Identify Intelligence Gaps
• Initiate Collection of Required Information

It identifies for further analysis specific features of the environment and activities within it and the physical space where they exist that may influence available courses of action (COAs) or the commander's decision cycle.

A geographical area in which a commander is directly capable of influencing operations by maneuver or fire support systems normally under the commander's control.

That area of concern to the commander, including the area of influence, areas adjacent thereto, and extending into enemy territory to the objectives of current or planned operations.

The geographical area where information that will satisfy a specific information requirement can be collected. Named areas of interest are usually selected to capture indications of adversary courses of action, but also may be related to conditions of the battlespace.

The geographical area where high-value targets can be acquired and engaged by friendly forces.

The collection, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of geographic information on the natural and man-made features of the terrain, combined with other relevant factors, to predict the effect of terrain on military operations.

• Create or update threat models
• Identify threat capabilities

• 17: Composition, Disposition, Tactics, Training, Logistics, Operational Effectiveness, Communications, Intelligence, Recruitment, Support, Finance, Reach, National Agencies, Law Enforcement Agencies, International / Intergovernmental / Non-governmental Organizations, Personality, Other threats
• Composition: The identification of threat cells or forces and their affiliated political, religious, or ethnic organizations.
• Disposition: The geographical location of threat elements and how they are deployed, employed, or located.

• Convert threat doctrine/TTPs to graphics.
• Describe tactics and options (As a narrative).
• Identify HVTs and HPTs.

A threat template dictates the enemy approach to a particular tactical situation, without terrain and weather constraints

• Identify HVTs from existing intelligence.
• Review the threat's objective (Purpose, Key Tasks, Endstate).
• Identify key assets to the primary operation or sequels.
• Determine how the threat might react to the loss of each identified HVT.

COAs and supporting operations the threat can take to influence accomplishing friendly missions.

• Identify the threats likely objectives and end-state.
• Identify the full set of COAs available to the threat.
• Evaluate and prioritize COAs.
• Develop each COA (Detail and Time requirements).
• Identify initial intel requirements (Surveillance/Recon).

In a non-linear fight, start at the lowest (tactical) level and work up. In a linear fight, start at the highest (strategic or operational) and work down.

Through commander's guidance and METT-TC.

• Feasible: The unit must be able to accomplish the mission within the available time, space, and resources.
• Acceptable: The tactical or operational advantage gained by executing the COA must justify the cost in resources, especially casualties.
• Suitable: A COA must accomplish the mission and comply with the commander's planning guidance.
• Distinguishable: Each COA must differ significantly from the others.
• Complete: A COA must show how the decisive, shaping and sustaining operations accomplish the mission.

• Analyze each COA to identify threat strengths, weaknesses, decision points (DPs), and potential centers of gravity.
• Evaluate how well each COA meets the screening criteria.
• Evaluate how well each COA takes advantage of the operational environment.
• Analyze the threat's recent activity to determine if there are indications that one COA has already been adopted.

Develop each COA in as much detail as the situation requires given the time available.

• Situation Template (SITEMP).
• MLCOA/MDCOA.
• HVTs specific to that COA.

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.

A model against which threat activity can be rocorded and compared. It represents a sequential projection of events that relate to space and time on the battlefield and indicates the enemy's ability to adopt a particular course of action. Depicts the NAIs where activity or lack therof will indicate which threat COA the threat has adopted, the combination of the NAI, indicators, and Time Phased Lines (TPLs) associated with each threat COA forms the basis of the event template.

An information requirement identified by the commander as being critical to facilitating timely decision making. It includes two key elements; Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIR) and Friendly Force Information Requirements (FFIR).

An intelligence requirement, stated by the commander as a priority for intelligence support, which the commander needs to support decision making and to understand the area of interest or the threat.

Information the commander and staff need about the forces available for the operation. This includes personnel, maintenance, supply, ammunition, and petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) status, and experience and leadership capabilities.

They identify those elements of friendly force information that, if compromised, would jeopardize mission success. They have the same importance as CCIRs and must be approved by the commander.

A type of information requirement developed by subordinate commanders and the staff (including subordinate staffs) that requires dedicated SR collection for the elements of threat, terrain and weather, and civil considerations.

It facilitates tasking by matching requirements to assets.

The time by which information must be delivered to the requestor in order to provide decision makers with timely intelligence.

• Templates
• THREATEMP
• MCOO
• SITEMP
• EVENTEMP

A Modified Combined Obstacle Overlay. It is a joint intelligence preparation of the battlespace product used to portray the effects of each battlespace dimension on military operations.

The Operational Environment (OE)

The Contemporary Operating Environment (COE)

The Joint Operational Environment (JOE)

Continuously, but it begins during step 2 of MDMP.

• OV's facilitate the understanding of the OE and are directly related to operational and strategic planning.
• MV's are those aspects of the OE that directly effect a mission.

How the environment will effect both threat and friendly operations.

• Terrain
• Weather
• Civil considerations

• 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).

• HVTs are critical to the success of the enemy commander’s mission.
• A COG is the source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, and will to act and is always linked to the objective.