text: Integrating the Intelligence Warfighting Function
  Table 3-3. Intelligence support to the military decision-making process (continued)
  Step 2—Mission analysis Intelligence support to step 2 (continued)
  • Analyze the higher headquarters’ plan or
  MCOO and terrain (with engineer officer): Does the overlay—
  order.
  • Identify restricted or severely restricted terrain?
  • Perform initial IPOE.
  • Identify mobility corridors (air and ground)?
  • Determine specified, implied, and essential
  tasks. • Identify infiltration lanes and landing and pickup zones?
  • Review available assets and identify • Identify key or decisive terrain?
  resource shortfalls. • Define defensible terrain?
  • Determine constraints. • Identify terrain that supports survival and evasion of personnel executing their isolated
  • Identify critical facts and develop Soldier guidance?
  assumptions. • Identify aspects within the information dimension (and their interrelationship with the human
  • Begin a risk assessment. dimension), such as communications means and networks (telephone networks [landline,
  cellular, satellite, and voice over internet protocol]; internet; radio; television; newspapers
  • Develop initial CCIRs and EEFIs.
  and other printed material; social media; cyber cafes; threat and neutral narratives; threat
  • Develop the initial information collection plan.
  and neutral actor vulnerabilities to information advantage activities; and friendly
  • Update plan for the use of available time.
  vulnerabilities to threat information warfare activities).
  • Develop initial themes and messages.
  Situation templates: Do the situation templates—
  • Develop a proposed problem statement.
  • Include all committed and reinforcing forces as well as combat multipliers?
  • Develop a proposed mission statement.
  • Focus at least two levels down in detail (or as command dictates), including all threat
  • Present the mission analysis briefing.
  warfighting functions?
  • Develop and issue the initial commander’s
  • Graphically portray threat characteristics, vulnerabilities and peculiarities, activities, and
  intent.
  capabilities for each COA?
  • Develop and issue initial planning guidance.
  • Event templates and matrices (unrefined): Do the event templates identify and focus on NAIs,
  • Develop COA evaluation criteria.
  time phase lines, time distance analysis, critical actions, or threat DPs?
  • Issue a WARNORD.
  Step 3—COA development Intelligence support to step 3
  • Ensure IPOE products are deliberately integrated into COA development. Critical products
  include the MCOO, civil considerations products, threat objectives, threat models (including
  • Assess relative combat power. HVTs), situation templates, and event templates.
  • Generate options. • Integrate information and intelligence received from the initial information collection effort.
  • Array forces. • Ensure weather and EMS effects on the warfighting function capabilities are deliberately
  • Develop a broad concept. integrated into COA development.
  • Assign headquarters. • Refine and prioritize situation templates, event templates, and matrices.
  • Develop COA statements and sketches. • Update HVTs for targeting by lethal and nonlethal methods.
  • Conduct COA briefing. • Take an active part in analyzing combat power by providing all available information on
  • Select or modify COAs for continued current threat forces and the situation.
  analysis. • Provide information on threat vulnerabilities while analyzing relative combat power.
  • Consider as many possible COAs as time permits, starting with the most likely and including
  the worst case (most dangerous).
  Step 4—COA analysis (war game) Intelligence support to step 4
  As the enemy commander—
  • Use the enemy situation template as a starting point and the event template and matrix as
  guides to develop critical enemy DPs in relation to friendly COAs.
  • Project enemy reactions to friendly actions and project enemy losses.
  • Capture the results of each enemy action and counteraction as well as corresponding
  friendly and enemy strengths and vulnerabilities.
  As the command’s senior intelligence officer—
  • Identify new information requirements.
  • Gather the tools.
  • Recommend PIRs that correspond to DPs and refine PIRs with the LTIOV.
  • List all friendly forces.
  • Redefine enemy COAs based on developed DPs and the situation template.
  • List assumptions.
  • Develop critical enemy DPs in relation to friendly COAs.
  • List known critical events and DPs.
  • Fight as an uncooperative enemy to develop DPs and project enemy losses.
  • Select the war-gaming method.
  • Address all relevant enemy activities.
  • Select a technique to record and display
  • Assist in developing target selection standards and the attack guidance matrix from war-
  results.
  gamed COAs.
  • War-game the operations and assess the
  • Recommend changes to the information collection plan.
  results.
  • Based on the war game, refine the situation and event templates with corresponding DPs,
  • Conduct a war-game briefing (optional).
  TAIs, and HVTs, including NAIs.
  • Refine the event matrix with TAIs and HVTs.
  • Participate in the targeting process.
  • Link NAIs to TAIs.
  • Display the scheme of information collection during the war game.
  • Assists the G-3/S-3 in developing the decision support template.
  • Consider the effects of enemy and friendly COAs on local population attitudes and
  behaviors.