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Chapter II II-6 JP 3-60 capabilities. JIPOE helps target developers prioritize an adversary’s target systems based on how much each contributes to the adversary’s ability to wage war. (b) Establishing intelligence requirements is critical to the success of target development and to the entire targeting process. Targeteers should work closely with collection managers, intelligence analysts, and planners to develop, adjust, and integrate intelligence requirements for planning, execution, and assessment throughout the targeting cycle and integrate them into the collection plan. This iterative process should also quickly incorporate changes needed to adapt to a rapidly evolving operational environment. (3) Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment (a) The JIPOE process is a fundamental step in the planning process and is important to target development. This is because JIPOE provides a disciplined methodology that provides an understanding of the relationship between adversary COGs. This baseline intelligence illuminates which decisive points offer opportunity to attack the adversary’s COGs (directly and indirectly), extend friendly operational reach, or enable the application of friendly forces and capabilities. Targeteers and planners should resolve any misunderstanding or unclear objectives. Along with a dynamic threat assessment, JIPOE products provide much of the substantive identification, baseline analysis, characterization of systems, functional capabilities that inform target development, and target systems analysis. Figure II-3. Target Development Relationships Target Development Relationships 1. End State and Commander’s Objectives Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment Target System Analysis Electronic Target Folder Adversary Target System Target System Component Target Target Element Taxonomy Product 2. Target Development and Prioritization 3. Capability Analysis