APPENDIX
C
Commander's Guidance
This appendix provides commanders a ready-to-use tool to assist them in developing their guidance. As previously discussed, the content of the commander's guidance may vary depending on the situation. This checklist is not designed to meet the needs of all situations, nor is it intended to provide commanders a tool to ensure they check each block during a CTC rotation. It is provided as a generic list of information commanders should consider as they develop their guidance. Use this list as a starting point, and modify it to suit your own needs. This list will be organized by a battlefield operating system.
1. Enemy COAs to consider during the COA development and COA analysis phase of the planning process. This may be the enemy's most probable COA, most dangerous COA, or a combination of the two.
2. Identify enemy's critical decision points and vulnerabilities.
3. PIR (CCIR).
4. Targeting guidance.
5. Identify high-value targets.
6. Desired enemy perception of friendly forces.
7. Reconnaissance and surveillance guidance.
1. Initial intent:
- Purpose of operation.
- Method (phases/sequences).
- Desired endstate.
2. Concept of operations:
- Decisive point.
- Battlefield
organization (close, deep, rear).
- Task/purpose
- Resources to be used for each
3. COA development guidance:
- Critical events.
- Number of COAs to be developed.
- Concepts
to consider, or not consider.
- Formations to consider
- Shaping of battlefield
- Defeat mechanism
- Main and supporting effort
- Task organization.
- Where/what risk to accept.
- Task/purpose of subordinate units.
- Reserve guidance (composition, mission, priorities, command and control measures).
- Reconnaissance
or counter-reconnaissance guidance.
- Composition
- Command and control measures
- FFIR (CCIR)
4. Deception Guidance, to include the following:
- Amounts and types of resources to commit to the deception plan.
- The desired action of the enemy, and who the target is.
- How you intend to exploit the enemy action.
- EEFI (CCIR)
5. Reconnaissance and surveillance guidance and priorities.
1. High payoff targets:
- Methods of engagement (maneuver, lethal, nonlethal)
- Desired effects.
2. Guidance for fires. (Note: The NTC has produced an instructional video on commander's guidance for fire support. See information at the back of this newsletter for instructions on how to order this video.)
3. Observer plan.
4. Employment of COLTs.
5. Use of special munitions.
6. Task and purpose of fires.
7. Counterfires and use of radars.
8. SEAD guidance.
9. Critical friendly zones (CFZs) and call for fire zones (CFFZs).
10. Fire support coordination measures.
11. Synchronization and focus of fires with maneuver.
1. Mobility, counter-mobility, and survivability guidance. Priority of work and support.
2. Guidance on employing friendly obstacles, and engineer assets.
3. FASCAM and Volcano use and duration.
4.) Guidance on management of CL IV, V materials.
5. Breaching guidance.
1. Chemical reconnaissance assets.
2. MOPP posture guidance.
3. Decontamination guidance.
4. Masking and unmasking guidance.
5. Employment of smoke.
1. Protection priorities.
2. Positioning guidance.
3. Weapon control status.
1. Location of CSS assets.
2. CSS priorities in terms of manning, fueling, fixing, arming, transporting, sustaining, and protecting.
3. MEDEVAC treatment and evacuation guidance.
4. Classes of supply.
5. Controlled supply rates.
1. CP positioning guidance.
2. Position of commander.
3. Integration of re-trans assets or other communications equipment.
4. LO guidance.
5. Force protection measures.
6. Timeline guidance.
7. Type of order/rehearsal.
Appendix
B - Mission Analysis Checklist/Matrix
Acknowledgements
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