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LEADING QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR STAFF WHILE YOU ARE DEVELOPING YOUR COURSE OF ACTION INTELLIGENCE How have you designed your Security Area? Where will the BRT operate in relation to TF Scouts and companies conducting screens? How will you utilize remote sensors to add depth to your Security Area? What are your controls to ensure positive target handover from remote sensor to BRT to TF Scout to shooter through the depth of your battlespace? What are your essential NAIs and why? What PIR have you identified to execute your decisions? MANEUVER What is your plan to secure the depth of your battlespace? What is your defeat mechanism? Do you see a possibility for an Economy of Force Mission? How will you constitute a reserve and from where? Where and when do you visualize commitment of the reserve? How will you utilize mounted/dismounted infantry? Where and how will you use TOW and JAVELINS? Where and how will you use lift/attack aviation? How will you control traffic through Passage/Breach Lanes? Where is your Decisive Point? What are your key Decisions? How are they tied to PIR and FFIR? Where are you assuming risk? How have your weighted your main effort? FIRE SUPPORT Where will you use destructive/neutralizing/suppressive fires? How and where will you use your ADAM/RAAM munitions? How and where will you use your projected smoke? How many minutes of projected smoke do you have available? Who has Priority of Fires in each Phase of the operation? Where and when will you utilize CAS? How will you minimize effects on fires? Do you have CFZs and CFFZs planned? Where? Where will you position your COLTS/STRIKERS? How will you insert them? What is the commo/CFF link between observers and shooters? Is your observer plan centralized or decentralized?

What is your plan for non-lethal fires? AIR DEFENSE What are your AD priorities and where are you accepting risk in your coverage? How have you massed your ADA to protect breach lanes? How have you synchronized the BOS functions to defeat an airmobile insertion? How are your SENTINEL radars integrated into your ISR plan? Have you allocated force protection assets to your SENTINELs? MOBILITY/COUNTERMOBILITY/SURVIVABILITY What is the condition of your mine plows? Where and how many breaches do you see for the mission? How will the BCT/REGT help set conditions for TF/SQN breaches? How have you arrayed your mobility assets? Do you have enough redundancy to support your Decisive Operation? Where do you see the bulk of your conventional obstacle effort? What is your intent (target, location, and effect) for your obstacles? What is your plan/intent (target, location, and effect) for situational obstacles? What is the trigger and who will observe? Have you planned to use your MOPMs and HORNETS? If available, where and when will you emplace air VOLCANO? Who is the priority of your survivability efforts? What are the disengagement criteria for Engineers working in the EA? How will your track your efforts? CSS What are your maintenance priorities? What is your plan to transition from offense to defense? How will you ensure the Class IV/V arrives at the right place/time? What is your plan to recover Class IV/V following the defense? Who is your priority for non-standard CASEVAC assets? Have your planned for aerial MEDEVAC? Will you form a FLE? What assets will it contain? How do you assess the Rear Area Threat? C2 Is the MSE network designed to support the entire AO? How many retrans stations do you have available? Do you have access to an aerial retrans? Do you have access to a C2 aircraft? Does it have a console? Where will the Commander be during the fight? Who accompanies him in the Assault CP or C2 aircraft?