text: Judge Advocate General’s Corps Support to Operations
  Table 3-1. Legal inputs and outputs to the military decision-making process
  Key Inputs Steps Key Outputs
  Higher headquarters’plan or order Step 1 Commander’s initial guidance
  or a new mission anticipated by the Receipt of Mission Initial allocation of planning time
  commander
  Higher headquarters plan or order Step 2 Problem statement
  (keyannexes) Mission Analysis Mission statement
  Higher headquartersROE, CDE, Initial commander’s intent
  TEA, NSE, and legal support
  Key event: Initial planning guidance
  knowledge products
  Commander’sbrief Initial legally significant actions
  Knowledge products from other
  organizations Updated legal running estimate
  Constraints and assumptions
  Legal specified and implied tasks
  Identified potential legal risk and
  issues
  Identified command relationships
  and authorities
  Problem statement Step 3 COA statements and sketches
  Mission statement Course of Action (COA) (cid:120) Tentative task organization
  Initial commander’s intent Development (cid:120) Broad concept of operations
  Initial planning guidance Revised planning guidance
  Key Event:
  Initial legally significant actions Broad concept of legal support
  Staff COA development meeting
  Updated legal running estimate Updated constraints and
  Constraints and assumptions assumptions
  Legal specified and implied tasks Identified legal risks and issues for
  COAs
  Identified command relationships
  and authorities for COAs
  COA statements and sketches Step 4 Refined COAs
  Revised planning guidance COA Analysis (War Game) War game results
  Broad concept of legal support Potential decision points
  Updated constraints and Key event: Updated legally significant actions
  assumptions Staff war game meeting Refined concept of legal support
  Updated legal running estimates Updated constraints and
  Legal risks and issues for COAs assumptions
  Command relationships and Mitigation of legal risks and issues
  authorities for COAs Refined command relationships
  and authorities