text: Chapter 1
  Foundational Guidelines
  Targeting is a complex and multi-disciplined effort that requires coordinated
  interaction among many groups. Army forces meet a diverse array of challenges and
  contribute to national objectives across a wide range of operational categories,
  including large-scale combat operations, limited contingency operations, crisis
  response, and support to security cooperation. While the overwhelming majority of
  operations conducted by Army forces occur either below the threshold of armed
  conflict or during limited contingencies, the focus of Army readiness is on large-scale
  combat operations.
  Army forces conduct operations in support of joint campaigns which for the most part
  occur as part of a larger coalition operation. Leaders must understand the
  interdependencies between their own assigned forces and the forces or capabilities
  provided by others to generate the complementary and reinforcing effects of combined
  arms approaches. Army forces employ joint and other unified action partner
  capabilities to the degree they are available. However, because peer threats can contest
  the force in all domains, Army forces must be prepared to conduct operations when
  some or all joint capabilities are unavailable to support mission accomplishment.
  Army forces employ organic capabilities in multiple domains, and they continuously
  benefit from air and maritime strategic transportation and space and cyberspace
  capabilities that they do not control, including global positioning, satellite
  communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Lower echelons
  may not always notice the opportunities created by higher echelons or other forces that
  operate primarily in other domains; however, leaders must understand how the absence
  of those opportunities affects their concepts of operations, decision making, and risk
  assessment.
  The Army’s multidomain operations concept accounts for the constant nature of war
  and the changing character of warfare. Its balanced approach guides how Army forces
  operate across the competition continuum given the prevailing characteristics of
  anticipated operational environments (OEs) now and in the near future. For more
  information on war, warfare, and multidomain operations see FM 3-0.
  In order to be successful throughout the range of military operations, across the
  competition continuum, and overcome the challenges presented by a very diverse OE,
  Army Commanders and staff use several integrating processes to synchronize forces
  and the warfighting functions within the military decision-making process (MDMP).
  An integrating process consists of a series of steps that incorporate multiple disciplines
  to achieve a specific end. Key integrating processes that occur within the MDMP
  include:
  * Intelligence preparation of the battlefield.
  * Information collection.
  * Targeting.