JP 3-60, page 61
Joint Targeting
Joint Publication: Joint Targeting
31 January 2013 public edition
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The Joint Targeting Cycle
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h. Phase 6—Targeting Assessment
(1) The targeting assessment phase is a continuous process that assesses the
effectiveness of the activities that occurred during the first five phases of the joint targeting
cycle. The targeting assessment process helps the commander and staff determine if the
ends, ways, and means of joint targeting have resulted in progress toward accomplishing a
task, creating an effect, or achieving an objective. Targeting assessment occurs at the
tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war. The assessment of target engagement
results must be integrated to provide the overall joint targeting assessment. Paragraph 4,
“Time-Sensitive Target Considerations,” and Appendix D, “The Targeting Assessment
Process,” discuss assessment in more detail.
(2) The targeting assessment phase is common to both deliberate and dynamic
targeting of the joint targeting process and examines the results of the target engagement.
Effective assessments in phase 6 require detailed, continuous inputs from the first five phases
of the joint targeting process to include:
(a) Phase 1: End states, objectives, tasks, effects, MOEs, and MOPs.
(b) Phase 2: TM, to include characteristics, critical elements, and functional
linkages.
(c) Phase 3: Target vulnerability, weaponeering solutions, and collateral
damage estimates.
(d) Phase 4: Tasking orders, weapon/delivery platform, and delivery tactics.
(e) Phase 5: Intelligence collection supporting the commander’s critical
information requirements, mission details, and mission reporting.
(3) The outputs from phase 6 are: BDA, munitions effectiveness assessment
(MEA), collateral damage assessment (CDA), and reattack recommendations.
For additional information on targeting assessment, see Appendix D, “The Targeting
Assessment Process.” Also refer to DIA publications DI-2820-4-03, Battle Damage
Assessment (BDA) Quick Guide, and DI 2800-2-YR, Critical Elements of Selected Generic
Installations (Critical Elements Handbook).
4. Time-Sensitive Target Considerations
a. Objectives and Guidance for TSTs. The JFC’s objectives and guidance shape the
basic procedural framework for components to expedite engagement of TSTs. Additionally,
the JFC establishes guidance on procedures for coordination, deconfliction, and
synchronization among components. Once this guidance is issued, the components establish
planned and reactive procedures for engaging the prioritized TSTs. JFC guidance on TSTs
to component commanders supports different phases of both deliberate and dynamic
targeting and includes the following: