text: Introduction
  Field Manual (FM) 3-60, describes the tactics, techniques, and procedures associated with effectively
  applying a targeting methodology to integrate and synchronize capabilities to create desired effects on targets
  and enable positions of relative advantage during the conduct of operations. Targeting is critical to
  synchronize operations from competition to crisis and into armed conflict. During worldwide staffing of the
  FM 3-60, significant input was received with valuable recommendations from the force. The Army
  Multidomain Targeting Center (AMTC) in conjunction with the Directorate of Training and Doctrine
  (DOTD), Intelligence Center of Excellence (ICOE), and the Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate (CADD)
  collectively revised the FM to ensure we captured all force requirements, concerns, and recommendations.
  Army targeting fed by focused intelligence support is critical to operational success. Some of the new
  doctrinal aspects of FM 3-0 drive the need for a sophisticated targeting effort. For example, Army forces
  must account for the three dimensions (physical, information, and human) of the operational environment
  and nested decisive points and effects to execute an effective targeting methodology across the strategic
  contexts. Detailed intelligence on the operational environment supports detailed targeting.
  Key elements of this revision are—
  * Emphasizes targeting as an operations integrating process.
  * Focuses on echelon specific requirements.
  * Introduces Operational Framework.
  * Introduces intelligence support to targeting appendix.
  * Re-introduces target types and a codified list of desired effects, which will enhance the ability to
  articulate intent.
  * Added information on the assessment working group within the targeting process as assessments
  are the foundation of effective targeting.
  * Aligns the Army’s targeting manual with FM 3-0, Operations and JP 3-60, Joint Targeting.
  FM 3-60 is designed to be applicable and useful to all members of the Army Profession. This includes
  commanders, staffs, leaders, and targeting team members of a Theater Army, Corps, Division, and Brigade.
  The publication also provides the foundation for Army training and education curricula on targeting. FM 3-
  60 describes how targeting is conducted at echelon, as part of a joint or multinational force. This publication
  addresses targeting requirements and processes in support of the Army targeting methodology of decide,
  detect, deliver, and assess (D3A) and the integration of the joint targeting cycle, as needed, to support
  operations. Targeting is a command responsibility that requires participation of key members of both the
  coordinating and special staffs.
  The intent of this version is to provide targeting teams at echelon an easy to use and valuable resource that is
  relevant to individual needs. We are striving to ensure this release is applicable to the changing environment,
  useful at echelon, and most importantly provides the doctrinal foundation expected from a targeting FM.
  Although the Army faces a substantial amount of change through the transition from counterinsurgency to
  large-scale combat and multidomain operations, it is imperative that we emphasize the effectiveness of the
  targeting process and the requirement to plan early. Using the targeting process effectively and efficiently
  will enable targeting teams to set conditions during planning and minimize unplanned or unanticipated targets
  from derailing friendly schemes of maneuver or impacting the ability to achieve the Commanders intent.
  The commander establishes the environment that determines the quality of the targeting effort and targeting
  often determines the commander's success or failure. The focus of this publication is on the targeting process
  from brigade to theater level. The Targeting methodology is not new or revolutionary. It consists of time-
  tested techniques organized in a systematic framework. Emerging organizations, all domain concepts, and
  large-scale combat operational considerations are also presented.