text: Chapter 13
  • Are there any special ammunition handling, storage, and environmental considerations or national
  limitations on the employment of weapons or weapon systems?
  • Do the weapons depend on GPS signals for accuracy?
  • What is the status or accuracy of the GPS signal predicted to be during operations?
  • Are there any occupational health and safety constraints?
  • Are volumetric (blast) munitions available? If so, what are the constraints on their employment?
  • What nonlethal weapons are available, and are there any national restrictions on their use?
  Command
  13-30. Commanders and staffs consider and answer the following command questions with respect to
  multinational operations:
  • What are the multinational levels of command?
  • What will be the command relationships for fire support assets?
  • What is the command arrangement for conducting multinational long-range fires?
  • What are the liaison arrangements?
  Control
  13-31. Commanders and staffs consider and answer the following control questions with respect to
  multinational operations:
  • Will terrain requirements to support offensive operations be considered in the overall deconfliction
  of real estate by the G-3 or S-3?
  • What operational environment control procedures deconflict air, aviation, indirect fire, and
  unmanned aircraft system assets?
  • What operational management requirements exist in relation to electromagnetic warfare?
  • What is the policy for using indirect fire systems using nonprecision munitions in the ROE?
  • What is the policy for using obscurants and illumination in the ROE?
  ENGINEER PLANNING
  13-32. Commanders and staffs consider and answer the following engineer planning questions with respect
  to multinational operations:
  • What is the engineer command structure for the mission?
  • What are the engineer coordination interfaces?
  • When will these coordination measures take effect?
  • What are the capabilities of the allies’ engineer forces? Have these capabilities been passed on to
  other multinational forces?
  • Who is the lead nation and what force engineer capabilities is the lead nation providing?
  • What capabilities is the host nation providing?
  • What multinational documents and agreements apply to the mission, such as ABCANZ standards?
  • What are the technical standards for the mission and who is the technical authority?
  • What are the specific AO characteristics that affect interoperability, such as severe climatic
  conditions?
  • Who is the lead nation for mapping? Who is maintaining the common map database?
  • Are engineers involved in targeting to assess or estimate the work required to repair infrastructure
  and utilities? Are engineers involved in clearing the area and route of mines and unexploded
  ordnance at the end of the hostilities?
  • What are the phases and flow of engineer units, capabilities, and materiel to the mission area to
  support the plan?
  • Is this flow reflected in the multinational time-phased force and deployment list?
  • Are there any specific multinational engineer capabilities that could facilitate deployment?
  • Is there a clear multinational engineer control structure to facilitate force deployment and reception?
  • Has a common multinational facilities survey been conducted and coordinated at the force engineer
  level?