text: Mission Command
  SECTION III – INTEGRATING PROCESSES
  3-123. Throughout the operations process, commanders and staffs integrate the warfighting functions to
  synchronize the force according to the commander’s intent, reconnaissance focus, concept of operations, and
  updated combat information provided by the BCT’s reconnaissance and security operations. The integrating
  processes for reconnaissance and security operations are—
  * IPB.
  * Targeting.
  * Information collection.
  INTELLIGENCE PREPARATION OF THE BATTLEFIELD
  3-124. Reconnaissance and security operations begin with developing and adapting the commander’s IPB.
  The commander’s IPB including understanding threat capabilities, visualizing enemy courses of actions, and
  developing associated decision support matrices and templates.
  3-125. An IPB is a systematic, continuous process of analyzing the threat and other aspects of an operational
  environment within a specific geographic area. The entire staff participates in the IPB to develop and sustain
  an understanding of the enemy, terrain and weather, and civil considerations. An IPB identifies options
  available to friendly and threat forces. ATP 2-01.3 discusses IPB in detail.
  TARGETING
  3-126. Targeting is the process of selecting and prioritizing targets and matching the appropriate response
  to them, considering operational requirements and capabilities (JP 3-0). Targeting begins in planning.
  Targeting is an iterative process that continues through preparation and execution.
  3-127. The targeting process is comprised of four basic steps: decide; detect; deliver; and assess. Targeting,
  nested within the operations process, provides an effective method for matching friendly force capabilities
  against enemy targets. The decide step sets priorities for intelligence operations, reconnaissance and security
  operations, and attack planning. The decide step draws heavily on detailed IPB and the timely and accurate
  reporting of the BCT’s Cavalry organizations to provide a continuous assessment of the enemy situation.
  Staff develops NAIs and TAIs to support the commander’s decision-making regarding targeting and to
  effectively target threats.
  3-128. To ensure effective targeting, commanders and staffs establish intelligence operations priorities for
  each phase or critical event of an operation and effectively translate these priorities into clear reconnaissance
  guidance. A high-value target is a target the enemy commander requires for the successful completion of the
  mission (JP 3-60). The loss of a high-value target degrades important enemy functions significantly
  throughout the friendly commander’s area of interest. Priorities depicted using visual products and matrices
  communicate the importance of specific targets to the enemy’s course of action and those targets that, if
  destroyed, would contribute favorably to the friendly course of action. The high-payoff target is a target
  whose loss to the enemy will significantly contribute to the success of the friendly course of action (JP 3-60).
  The collection plan guides Cavalry units to answer the commander’s PIRs, including finding those high-payoff
  targets designated as PIRs.
  NAMED AREA OF INTEREST
  3-129. A named area of interest is a geospatial area or systems node or link against which information that
  will satisfy a specific information requirement can be collected, usually to capture indications of adversary
  courses of action (JP 2-0). NAIs provide a graphical method to focus Cavalry organizations as they execute
  security missions. Significantly, NAIs link most probable and most dangerous threat activities to terrain
  where those activities may occur. Given the NAIs, subordinate commanders can prioritize the employment
  and deployment of their forces and assets to provide the most effective observation and coverage throughout
  the area of operations as they develop their scheme of maneuver and observation plans.