text: Defense
  (cid:131) Attack aircraft.
  (cid:122) Likely use of all enemy reconnaissance assets and organizations including likely reconnaissance
  objectives,reconnaissance avenues of approach,and times to expect enemy reconnaissance,based
  on doctrinal rates of march.
  (cid:122) Likely use of all reconnaissance assets to locate observer locations and observation posts.
  (cid:122) Likely locations and identification of enemy HVTs—such as artillery formations, reserves, and
  command and control.
  (cid:122) Likely locations, compositions, strength, employment options, and time and distance factors for
  enemy reserves and follow-on forces.
  (cid:122) Locations of enemy decision points that determine selection of a specific COA.
  (cid:122) Likely breach sites,strike areas,and points of penetration.
  7-58. The intelligence staff develops the enemy COAstatement and sketch. The staff graphically depicts the
  enemy on a situation template based upon the results of the IPB. The intelligence staff officer (S-2)and staff
  use these items to develop the initial information collection plan. The intelligence staff should distribute all
  products by any available means to the entire staff and subordinate units to support parallel planning. (See
  ATP 2-01.3 for additional information.)
  7-59. The intelligence staff observes the enemy’s tactics, the terrain, the weather, and friendly and enemy
  capabilities to identify potential enemy vulnerabilities. To engage the enemy where the terrain puts the enemy
  at a disadvantage,the staff identifies restrictive terrain that may slow the enemy’s attack,cause a separation
  of forces,create difficulties in command and control,or force the enemy to conduct defile drills;for example,
  narrow valleys,passes,or urban areas. The intelligence staff also identifies chokepoints or natural obstacles
  that may cause a loss of momentum,a potential fragmenting of forces,or a vulnerable concentration of forces
  (rivers and canals). The staff identifies terrain that canalizes enemy formations into areas that provide
  defending forces with good fields of fire,observation,and flanking fires. The intelligence staff also identifies
  areas dominated by key or defensible terrain that allows massing of fires.
  7-60. The entire BCT staff must participate for IPB to develop successfully for the commander and
  subordinate units. Each staff member is responsible for analyzing the enemy based upon their warfighting
  function. Each staff member must be knowledgeable in friendly and enemy capabilities and terrain analysis.
  Each staff member must execute the process rapidly. The staff must ensure the results are detailed,legible,
  and disseminated quickly to support planning at all echelons.
  7-61. The intelligence officer, supported by the entire BCT staff, provides the fire support officer and
  information operations officer information and intelligence for targeting and information capabilities. The
  intelligence officer supports targeting by providing accurate,current intelligence and information to the staff
  and ensures the information collection plan supports the finalized targeting plan. Intelligence support to
  targeting includes two tasks—providing intelligence support to target development and providing
  intelligence support to target detection. Intelligence support to information capabilities provides the
  commander with information and intelligence support for information tasks and targeting through nonlethal
  actions. It includes intelligence support to the planning,preparation,and execution of the information related
  activities, as well as assessing the effects of those activities. (See FM 2-0 and FM 3-13 for additional
  information.)
  FIRES
  7-62. Supporting the BCT commander’s concept of operations during the defense involves attacking and
  engaging targets throughout the area of operations with massed or precision indirect fires, air and missile
  defense fires, defensive counterair, air support, and EW assets. As planning progresses, artillery
  counterbattery radar and counterfire radar employment is continually updated. Fire support planners must
  make maximum use of any preparation time available to plan and coordinate supporting fires. Planners must
  ensure fire support complements and supports all security forces and unit protection plans.
  7-63. Fire support plays a key role in disrupting the attacker’s tempo and synchronization during the defense.
  When required, massing overwhelming fires at critical places and times gains maximum efficiency and
  effectiveness in suppressing direct and indirect-fire systems and repelling an assault. Fire support planning