…As an option, add a number on links or decision points in each hypothesis and, on a separate piece of paper, write down the evidence for each number to be collected that would disprove that link…

…Sometimes there will be very little objective data pointing toward accomplishment. As discussed in the sections on effects, many indirect effects are hard to measure until they happen. Planners and commanders must be patient and counsel…

…Building relationships to the point of effective engagement and influence usually takes time. Commanders can be challenged to identify key leaders, develop appropriate messages, establish meaningful dialogue, and determine other effective ways and means of delivery…

…This guidance is an important input to subsequent mission analysis, but the completion of mission analysis is another point at which the JFC may provide updated planning guidance that affects COA development. (4) Commander’s Intent…

…The examples are designed to provide a starting point for more in-depth specific analysis for an operation. Term Changes Not applicable. viii ATP 2-33.4 18 August 2014 Introduction viii ATP 2-33.4…

…It encompasses care provided from the point of illness or injury through rehabilitative care. For further guidance on HSS, refer to JP 4-02, Health Service Support. For further guidance on procedures for deployment health activities…

…An object is a digital representation of a real-world physical thing, action, or abstraction that serves as a single point of convergence for intelligence production to facilitate analysis. Object-based production (OBP) is the intelligence…

…This occurs from the moment they have surrendered because they are no longer considered “combatants” at that point. POW camps or detention facilities should be marked to be visible from the air as such. However, it…

…During the formulation of the CONOPS, planners determine how the JFC wants the adversary to act at critical points in the operation. Those desired adversary actions then become the MILDEC objective. MILDEC is focused on causing…

…It also requires us to come up with a plausible motivation for the intruder—a motivation that is absent at this point. Either theory would be an adequate and plausible explanation. Both explain the same phenomenon…

…For example, one of the JFC’s objectives associated with the seize initiative phase of an operation might be to prevent the enemy’s navy from interfering with friendly force sea transit through a choke point…

…Basic structured analytic techniques are the starting point for most analysis and are unlikely to provide an answer to intelligence challenges on their own. However, they will provide insight that will support problem solving. The techniques…