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…An area, complex, installation, force, equipment, capability, function, individual, group, system, or behavior identified for possible action to support the commander’s objectives, guidance, and intent. Targets fall into two general categories: deliberate and dynamic. 2…

…Facilitates forward movement and grouping of assault units, particularly at night, and usually immediately precedes an attack. Reconnaissance, marking, and destruction of defending force’s obstacles. Indicates where assaults will occur. Gap-crossing equipment (swimming vehicles…

…It can involve targeting key leaders and influential groups to affect their decision-making processes. (7) Assess the results of employing fires. This task includes assessing the effectiveness and performance of fires as well as their…

…The European Command’s Amphibious Ready Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) was assigned as theater reserve for NATO forces, while Naval Mobile Construction Battalions 133 and 40 constructed base camps for implementation force personnel…

…Operations are grouped in three areas that compose the range of military operations (Figure I-3). (1) Military Engagement, Security Cooperation, and Deterrence. These are ongoing routine activities that establish, shape, maintain, and refine relations with…

The Joint Targeting Cycle II-9 (b) Target system components are a related group of entities within a target system that performs or contributes toward a similar function. The emphasis in component identification shifts from the…

…a geographically located, defined physical structure, group of structures, or area that provides a function that contributes to a target system’s capability. (2) Individual(s): a person or persons who provide a function that contributes…

…Fiscal resources underline the main indicators of a terrorist group’s COAs, intentions, and capabilities. 4-49. Countries that are not fiscally independent may be willing to allow the use of their territory as a training…

…The Services, as well as the Joint Technical Coordinating Group for Munitions Effectiveness (JTCG/ME), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), have developed a number of…

Joint Operations Across the Range of Military Operations V-15 (1) Security assistance refers to a group of programs by which the United States provides defense articles, military training, and other defense-related services to foreign…

…the distributed ground system and the information operations group. Further, the director of space forces may be of assistance in coordinating space requirements in support of targeting. The majority of Air Force targeteers are assigned to…

…JFCs counter the enemy’s fires and maneuver by making personnel, systems, and units difficult to locate, strike, and destroy. They protect their force from enemy maneuver and fires, including the effects of WMD. OPSEC and…

…CJCSI 3160.01, No-Strike and the Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology details a specific CDE process followed Department of Defense (DOD)-wide. Targets with associated collateral damage concerns expected to exceed theater (combatant command) thresholds are…

…During stability operations in the stabilize phase, protection from virtually any person, element, or group hostile to US interests must be considered. These could include activists, a group opposed to the operation, looters, and terrorists. Forces…

…When these forces and actions are not sufficient, follow-on strikes and/or the deployment of forces from CONUS or another theater and/or the use of multinational forces may be necessary. Consequently, the CCDR must…

…environment’s peoples and their cultures, politics, religion, economics, and related factors; and any variances within affected groups of people. In addition, intelligence collection must focus quickly on transportation infrastructure in the operational area, to include…

…An insurgency is defined as the organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to overthrow or force change of a governing authority. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself…

…This complementary use of maneuver and interdiction places the enemy in the operational dilemma of either defending from disadvantageous positions or exposing forces to interdiction strikes during attempted repositioning. (4) Within the joint force operational area…

…A Systems Perspective (1) A system is a functionally, physically, and/or behaviorally related group of regularly interacting or interdependent elements forming a unified whole. One way to think of the operational environment is as a…

…The MIDB’s architecture consists of a group of component databases that continuously replicate worldwide between hundreds of nodes on a variety of networks and between different security levels. This architecture provides the infrastructure for data…