text: Appendix B
  * Intelligence support to target development.
  * Intelligence support to target detection.
  * Intelligence support to combat assessment.
  INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE BATTLEFIELD
  B-14. Conducting IPB allows commanders and staffs to take a holistic approach to analyzing the OE. The
  IPB process comprises four steps: define the OE, describe environmental effects on operations, evaluate the
  threat, and determine threat COAs. It is a collaborative staff effort led by the G-2/S-2 and the intelligence
  staff. IPB products developed during MDMP, specifically during mission analysis, and continuously updated
  facilitate situational understanding and assist commanders and staffs in identifying relevant aspects within
  the AO that can affect mission accomplishment.
  B-15. IPB is critical to targeting threat capabilities at the right time and place to open windows of opportunity
  across domains. Close interaction between the commander, G-2/S-2, G-3/S-3, and the rest of the staff is
  essential, as the entire staff supports unit planning and preparation through the integrating processes. During
  step 2 of MDMP (Mission analysis), the intelligence staff when conducting IPB, works closely with targeting
  team members to provide and integrate a holistic IPB. This integration enables the planning process to reduce
  uncertainty in the conduct of IPB across the physical, virtual, cognitive and temporal framework of the OE.
  The holistic approach:
  * Describes the totality of relevant aspects of the OE that may impact friendly, threat, and neutral
  forces.
  * Accounts for all relevant domains that may impact friendly and enable threat operations.
  * Allows commanders to leverage positions of relative advantage at a time and place most
  advantageous for mission success with the most accurate information available.
  B-16. IPB results in intelligence products that are used during MDMP in developing friendly COA and
  decision points (referred to as DPs) for the commander. Targeting personnel contribute to and leverage IPB
  to understand the effects of the operational variables of political, military, economic, social, information, and
  infrastructure (referred to as PMESII-PT) and civil considerations, the AO, mission variables of mission,
  enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available-time available, civil considerations, and information
  considerations (referred to as (METT-TC[I]), on friendly and enemy operations, and to identify and develop
  high-value targets (HVTs), assist with developing HPTs, as well as provide nominations and
  recommendations to the NSL, RTL, and TST nominations. Figure B-1 on page B-5 contains a list of outputs
  (intelligence products) used during MDMP. Several of these products are crucial to planning information
  collection and targeting. They include:
  * Threat situation templates with associated COA statements and high-value target list.
  * Event templates and associated event matrices.
  * Modified combined obstacle overlay (referred to as the MCOO), terrain effects matrices, and
  terrain assessments.
  * Weather effects, light and illumination tables, and weather assessments.
  * Civil considerations overlays and assessments.
  * Initial collection plan with all available assets.
  * Initial PIR recommendations.