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11 › Confirm CID of the target as hostile before taking action against it (see Chapter Three). › Submitting timely MISREPs and otherwise supporting tactical assessment efforts. PRINCIPLES OF TARGETING Targeting is focused on achieving objectives. The purpose…

…This arrangement is appropriate when stability, continuity, economy, ease of long-range planning, and scope of operations dictate organizational integrity of Service components. While sustainment remains a Service responsibility, there are exceptions such as arrangements described…

Chapter II II-6 JP 3-0 transforms national strategic objectives into activities by development of operational products, which include planning for the mobilization, deployment, employment, sustainment, redeployment, and demobilization of joint forces. It ties the…

2 simple attrition with availability of resources, not objectives and the end state, driving operations. Recent conflicts have shown that victory can be achieved more effectively and efficiently through an effects-based approach that extends beyond…

…Normally, the operations directorate of a joint staff (J-3), assisted by the intelligence directorate of a joint staff (J-2), is responsible for coordinating assessment activities. The chief of staff facilitates the assessment process and…

…Without operational art, campaigns and operations would be sets of disconnected events. Operational art governs the deployment of forces and the arrangement of operations to achieve military operational and strategic objectives. c. The commander is the…

…Campaign planning has its greatest application in the conduct of large-scale combat operations, but can be used across the range of military operations. While intended primarily to guide the use of military power, campaign plans…

…Principles of Joint Operations. Since the establishment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1947, joint doctrine has recognized the nine principles of war. Subsequent experience from a wide variety of irregular warfare (IW) situations has…

57 CHAPTER FOUR ASSESSMENT GENERAL Assessment encompasses all efforts to evaluate effects and gauge progress toward accomplishment of actions, effects, and objectives. It also helps evaluate requirements for future action. It helps answer two questions: “How…

37 should not drive the nomination of targets—this is antithetical to an effects-based approach. The result of coordination is the JIPTL, which is submitted to the CFC or designated representative for approval. Again, targets…

Emerging Analytic Techniques 18 August 2014 ATP 2-33.4 A-9 partners; in the government domain it might include the policy actions or the behavior of allies or adversaries.  Assess how each of these…

…this does not imply any level of command authority over air assets.) It may be included as a section of or appendix to the SPINS (and thus of the ATO). Execution Planning and Force Execution Purpose…

40 It is critically important to stress that all estimates generated during this phase are situation-specific, reflecting the pairing of a particular force against a particular target, under a particular condition of employment. As such…

34 Targets for consideration come from a variety of sources. Many are developed pre- conflict and confirmed during planning. These may or may not come from a theater joint target list (JTL) maintained in peacetime. JTLs…

…The timing of focus for this effort varies according to the level of command, type of operation, JFC’s desires, and other factors. (Normally, the future operations directorate focuses on 24 hours out to 72 hours…