text: Chapter 4
  DECIDE
  4-142. This function focuses and sets priorities for intelligence collection and both lethal and nonlethal
  plans. Intelligence and operations personnel, with the commander and other staff members, decide when a
  target is developed well enough to engage. Continuous staff integration and regular meetings of the
  intelligence cell and targeting board enable this function. Specifically, intelligence analysts need to identify
  individuals and groups to engage as potential counterinsurgency supporters, targets to isolate from the
  population, and targets to eliminate. During the decide activity, the targeting board produces a prioritized
  list of targets and a recommended course of action associated with each. Executing targeting decisions may
  require the operations section to issue fragmentary orders. Each of these orders is a task that should be
  nested within the higher headquarters’ plan and the commander’s intent. Targeting decisions may require
  changing the intelligence synchronization plan. The targeting working group participates in COA analysis
  and collaboratively develops the following decide function products:
  High-Payoff Target List
  4-143. An HPT list is a prioritized list of targets, by phase of the joint operation, whose loss to an enemy
  will contribute to the success of the mission (JP 3-60)
  Intelligence Synchronization Plan
  4-144. This is what the intelligence officer uses, with staff input, to synchronize the entire collection
  effort, to include all assets the commander controls, assets of lateral units, and higher echelon units,
  organizations, and intelligence reach to answer the commander’s critical information requirements
  (FM 2-0).
  Target Selection Standards
  4-145. Target selection standards establish criteria, including accuracy, that must be met before an attack.
  For targets to be attacked using lethal means. requirements might include a picture, address, 8-digit grid,
  and enough evidence to prosecute. For targets to be attacked by nonlethal means, requirements may include
  background information on an individual, meetings he may attend, and known associates.
  Attack Guidance Matrix
  4-146. The attack guidance matrix lists which targets or target sets approved by the commander to act on,
  how and when to act on them, and the desired effects.
  Target Synchronization Matrix
  4-147. The target synchronization matrix combines data from the high-payoff target list, intelligence
  synchronization plan, and the attack guidance matrix. It lists high-payoff targets by category and the
  agencies responsible for detecting them, attacking them, and assessing the effects of the attacks.
  Targeting FRAGO
  4-148. The targeting FRAGO tasks units to execute the lethal and nonlethal plans.
  DETECT
  4-149. The detect function involves locating HPTs accurately enough to engage them. Targets are
  detected through the maximum use of all available assets. The S-2 must focus the intelligence acquisition
  efforts on the designated HPTs and PIR. Situation development information, through detection
  and tracking, will be accumulated as collection systems satisfy PIR and information requirements.
  Tracking is an essential element of the “detect” function of the targeting process. Tracking priorities are
  based on the commander’s concept of the operation and targeting priorities. Tracking is executed through
  the collection plan, since many critical targets move frequently.
  4-150. Detection at the tactical level is achieved through a variety of means such as a HUMINT source,
  an anonymous tip, UAS, a combat patrol, SIGINT, DOMEX, rotary wing aircraft, USAF aircraft
  or military working dog teams. The best means of detecting a target during an insurgency is HUMINT,