text: Army Tactics
   Multinational fires.
   Special operations.
   Information operations.
  * Integrate Army, multinational, and joint fires through—
   Targeting.
   Operations process.
   Fire support planning.
   Airspace planning and management.
   Electromagnetic spectrum management.
   Multinational integration.
   Rehearsals.
  For additional information on fires tasks see ADP 3-19, FM 3-09, and FM 3-01.
  1-137. The military decision-making process (MDMP) synchronizes the unit’s scheme of maneuver with
  the provision of fire support. The plan must identify critical times and places where units need the maximum
  effects from their fire support assets. That planning must consider existing limitations on employing fires,
  such as rules of engagement, presence of friendly forces within the assigned area, desired conditions of
  subsequent phases, and requirements for collateral damage assessments. Each commander’s guidance gives
  specified attack criteria for supporting fires assets, thus focusing the staff and unit planning and execution
  efforts on those critical times and events. Specified attack criteria are a compilation of commander’s
  guidance, desired effects, and high-payoff targets and attack priorities. The time available to plan operations
  constrains a commander’s ability to synchronize fire support operations that employ well-matched effects of
  all available assets against high-payoff targets.
  1-138. The integration of indirect fire support is fundamental to the success of a unit’s scheme of maneuver.
  Indirect fire planning reconciles top-down planning and bottom-up refinement. Indirect fire supports the
  unit’s maneuver by planning preparation fires, which includes the different types of effects: harassing,
  interdiction, suppressive, destruction, and deception fires. These fires can be time or event driven. (See FM
  3-09 for definition of desired effects.)
  Fire Support Planning and Coordination
  1-139. The unit’s ability to orchestrate and employ all available fire support resources as a system and to
  integrate and synchronize fire support with the concept of operations results from an established process
  known as fire support planning and coordination. Fire support planning is the continuous process of
  analyzing, allocating, integrating, synchronizing, and scheduling fires to describe how the effects of fires
  facilitate maneuver force actions (FM 3-09). Successful fire support planning is the result of the fire support
  coordinator’s aggressive contribution to the maneuver commander’s planning and decision-making process.
  Fire support coordination is the planning and executing of fire so targets are adequately covered by a suitable
  weapon or group of weapons (JP 3-09). Formal coordination binds fire support resources together to create
  a unity of effort so that the multiple effects of each fire support asset across all domains are rapidly and
  continuously integrated and synchronized with the scheme of maneuver.
  1-140. Fire supporters utilize the principles of fire support planning and coordination when advising the
  unit on the execution of fire support. These principles are extensions of the functions of fire support. The fire
  support planning and coordination principles are––
  * Plan early and continuously.
  * Ensure the continuous flow of targeting information.
  * Consider the use of all lethal and nonlethal attack capabilities.
  * Furnish the type of support requested.
  * Use the most effective fire support attack/delivery system.
  * Avoid unnecessary duplication.
  * Consider airspace coordination.
  * Provide adequate support.