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Joint Operations Across the Range of Military Operations V-57 (5) JFCs need to pay particular attention and give priority to activities impinging on and supporting the maneuver and interdiction needs of all forces. In addition to normal target nomination procedures, JFCs establish procedures through which land or maritime force commanders can specifically identify those interdiction targets they are unable to engage with organic assets within their operational areas that could affect planned or ongoing maneuver. These targets may be identified individually or by category, specified geographically, or tied to a desired effect or time period. Interdiction target priorities within the land or maritime operational areas are considered along with theater and/or JOA-wide interdiction priorities by JFCs and reflected in the air apportionment decision. The JFACC uses these priorities to plan, coordinate, and execute the theater- and/or JOA-wide air interdiction effort. The purpose of these procedures is to afford added visibility to, and allow JFCs to give priority to, targets directly affecting planned maneuver by air, land, or maritime forces. f. Operations When WMD are Employed or Located (1) Locating WMD and WMD materials. Since an enemy’s use of WMD can quickly change the character of an operation or campaign, joint forces may be required to locate and control WMD, materials used to develop WMD, or dual-use materials when discovered or located in an operational area. Commanders should consider locating and controlling WMD-related weapons and materials when planning in order to deny their use by a potential adversary. Such a requirement can exist across the conflict continuum. Once located, resources may be required to secure, inventory, destroy, neutralize, dispose of, or transport these materials. Materials that can be used to create a CBRN weapon or device, such as a radiological dispersal device, exist in even the most austere locations. Would-be terrorists can exploit materials that are often present at medical and industrial facilities. For example, cesium-137 is present at many medical facilities and is ideal for the creation of a radiological dispersal device. (2) Enemy Employment. The use or the threatened use of WMD can cause large-scale shifts in strategic and operational objectives, phases, and COAs. Multinational operations become more complicated with the threatened employment of these weapons. An enemy may use WMD against other multinational partners, especially those with little or no defense against these weapons, to disintegrate the alliance or coalition. (a) Intelligence and other joint staff members advise JFCs of an enemy’s capability to employ WMD and under what conditions that enemy is most likely to do so. This advice includes an assessment of the enemy’s willingness and intent to employ these weapons. It is important to ensure that high force or materiel concentrations do not provide lucrative targets for enemy WMD. (b) Known threat of WMD use and associated preparedness against such use are imperative in this environment. The joint force can survive use of WMD by anticipating their employment and taking appropriate offensive and defensive measures. Commanders can protect their forces in a variety of ways, including training, MISO, OPSEC, dispersion of forces or materiel, use of IPE, and proper use of terrain for