text: Multidomain Operations and Intelligence
  2-46. Understanding an OE is complex. The intelligence staff and intelligence analysis contribute to
  analyzing and describing the relevant aspects of the domains and dimensions through the operational and
  mission variables specific to a unit’s mission. Through participation with the entire staff, the intelligence staff
  leads and/or performs an important role in—
  ⚫ Understanding the domains and dimensions in time and space and identifying OE changes,
  including their causes and impacts.
  ⚫ Identifying how human behaviors and beliefs and information impact the physical dimension of
  operations.
  ⚫ Identifying one or more centers of gravity, depending on the echelon and situation.
  ⚫ Functional analysis.
  ⚫ Developing adversary and enemy threat models and identifying strengths and vulnerabilities
  across all domains.
  ⚫ Identifying possible friendly and enemy windows of opportunity across the domains and
  dimensions to create effects and possibly reach an advantage. Note. The intelligence staff must
  view the OE from friendly and enemy perspectives and any significant neutral and other actors.
  ⚫ Determining how, when, and where to leverage friendly capabilities across the domains to find
  and exploit friendly windows of opportunity.
  ⚫ Assisting the commander to visualize operations and impacts on the OE.
  ⚫ Framing and planning COAs and decisions during the MDMP.
  2-47. The intelligence staff, primarily through continuous intelligence analysis and IPOE, assists the
  commander and staff in focusing on and understanding the relevant aspects of an OE and determining in
  which domains those relevant aspects reside. This allows the commander and staff to discount irrelevant
  aspects of the OE. Identifying significant aspects of the OE (a substep to step 1 of IPOE) and describing
  environmental effects on operations (step 2 of IPOE) are crucial in ensuring the operational and mission
  variables are properly considered during the MDMP. The following also support the commander and staff’s
  understanding of an OE:
  ⚫ Understanding domain capabilities and how they are employed and understanding the various
  aspects of the dimensions are critical in synchronizing intelligence activities, to include
  modifying the intelligence architecture.
  ⚫ In turn, intelligence synchronization supports effective collection management and intelligence
  collection, which result in more focused and relevant information within the operational and
  mission variables.
  ⚫ Leveraging specialized and detailed intelligence from the intelligence enterprise is crucial to the
  effort.
  ⚫ Collaborating with each staff section and across the intelligence enterprise provides additional
  depth to understanding each domain and its interdependencies.
  ⚫ Accessing joint target system analysis (TSA) and joint target development products can be
  useful when trying to understand domain capabilities and interdependencies.
  ⚫ Army forces, especially when preparing for armed conflict during competition, must conduct
  Army analysis of threat systems through a federated target production effort.
  ⚫ The following IWFTs also support understanding an OE (see appendix B):
  ▪ Conduct pre-mission analysis of the OE.
  ▪ Provide warnings.
  ▪ Provide intelligence support to targeting (including target value analysis).
  ▪ Perform situation development.