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III-1 CHAPTER III JOINT FORCE TARGETING DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Joint Targeting Integration and Oversight a. The JFC’s primary targeting responsibility lies in establishing the objectives that component commanders will achieve throughout the operational environment with their forces (assigned, attached, and supporting). With the advice of subordinate component commanders, JFCs set priorities, provide clear targeting guidance, and determine the weight of effort to be provided to various operations. Joint force and component commanders identify HVTs and HPTs for acquisition, collection, and attack or influence, employing their forces in accordance with the JFC’s guidance. b. Friendly Fire Prevention. Throughout the targeting process, JFC and component commanders should establish safeguards to reduce the possibility of friendly fire. Knowledge of friendly forces position and intended scheme of maneuver in relation to select targets aids in friendly fire prevention. Friendly fire prevention is a key consideration of risk assessment throughout the entire spectrum of anticipated targeting timelines from long-term to rapidly changing time-sensitive situations. Although the JFC may justifiably elect to accept additional risk during time sensitive targeting, particularly for HVTs or HPTs, appropriate friendly fire prevention measures must still be in-place and followed. c. Collateral Damage Prevention. The United States of America places a high value on preserving civilian and noncombatant lives and property and seeks to accomplish its mission through the discriminate application of force with minimal collateral damage. Joint standards and methods for estimating collateral damage potential provide mitigation techniques and assist commanders with weighing collateral risk against military necessity and assessing proportionality within the framework of the military decision-making process. Joint standards and methods for conducting CDE are stipulated in CJCSI 3160.01, No-Strike and the Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology. d. Targeting Organizational Structure. The joint targeting process crosses traditional functional and organizational boundaries. Operations, plans, and intelligence personnel are the primary participants, but other functional area (e.g., logistics, weather, legal, and communications) subject matter experts (SMEs) also support the joint targeting cycle. Therefore, the organizational structure established by the JFC should be functionally inclusive, responsive, and flexible enough to adapt to a range of situations. In addition, JFCs should arrange their joint targeting organizational structure based upon assigned, attached, and supporting forces, as well as the threat, mission, and OA. Ultimately, the organizational “Four brave men who do not know each other will not dare to attack a lion. Four less brave, but knowing each other well, sure of their reliability and consequently of their mutual aid, will attack resolutely.” Colonel Charles Ardant du Picq, 1880