text: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield
  Civil Considerations
  7-44. An appreciation of civil considerations—the ability to analyze their impact on operations—
  enhances several aspects of operations: among them, the selection of objectives; location, movement, and
  control of forces; use of weapons; and protection measures. Civil considerations comprise six
  characteristics, expressed in the memory aid ASCOPE:
  • Areas.
  • Structures.
  • Capabilities.
  • Organizations.
  • People.
  • Events.
  DESCRIBE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
  7-45. Combine the evaluations of the effects of terrain, weather, and civil considerations into a product
  that best suits the LRS team's needs. Avoid guessing or assuming. Focus on the total environment’s effects
  on the COAs available to both the LRS team and threat forces.
  7-46. On request from the LRSC, the BFSB S-2 and R&S squadron S-2 will provide all the products
  previously described. The LRSC may only need some of these products as is; others they may be able to
  use, with some adaptation, in LRS team-planning operations. Training and close coordination between the
  LRSC, the BFSB, and the R&S squadron staffs will produce useful products for team planning.
  SECTION III. EVALUATE THE THREAT
  In step 3, the G-2/S-2 and staff analyze the command’s intelligence holdings, which they identified in step 1, to
  determine how the threat normally conducts operations under similar circumstances. Every threat can be
  analyzed, understood and, to some extent, predicted. Threat doctrine may be simple or even nonexistent.
  However, a threat will usually, at some level of command, act based on some set of ad hoc or established
  procedures. This third step in the IPB process begins with analyzing the threat, after which two substeps are
  performed: 1) update or create threat models, and 2), identify threat capabilities.
  ANALYZE THREAT FACTORS
  7-47. When operating against a new or less defined threat, the G-2/S-2 may need to develop or expand
  intelligence databases and threat models concurrently. In order to accomplish this, the G-2/S-2 should
  conduct threat characteristic order of battle (OB) analysis for each group identified in step 1. To do this, the
  staffs analyze--
  • Composition.
  • Disposition.
  • Tactics.
  • Training.
  • Logistics.
  • Operational effectiveness.
  • Communications.
  • Intelligence.
  • Recruitment.
  • Support.
  • Finance.
  • National agencies.
  • Law enforcement agencies.
  • International organizations and nongovernmental organizations.
  • Personality.
  • Other threats such as CBRN, diseases, or toxins.