APPENDIX C. BATTALION AND ABOVE FIRE SUPPORT PLANNING
1. Misson Analysis.
INPUTS
PROCESS
OUTPUTS
Higher warning order or
OPORD.
Status of supporting arms.
Info from higher, adjacent, and
lower FSCCs.
IPB products.
Enemy COAs from S-2.
HVTs by phase or critical
event.
Understand higher maneuver
and fire support plans.
Organize and analyze facts.
Identify specified and implied
fire support tasks.
Translate status of fire support
assets into capabilities.
Analyze effects of IPB on fire
support.
Use above to develop draft
EFSTs.
Fire support mission analysis
brief:
Higher fire support plan.
Fire support status
(capabilities and limitations).
Fire support IPB analysis.
Fire support time line.
Recommended fire support
tasks.
Commander approves or
modifies fire support tasks
and issues additional fire
support guidance.
2. Course of Action Development.
INPUTS
PROCESS
Fire support mission analysis
brief.
Approved EFSTs.
Commanders additional fire
support guidance.
OUTPUTS
Determine where to find and For each COA developed:
attack the enemy to accomplish
Concept of fires.
EFST.
Draft FSEM.
Identify HPTs in those formaDraft target list worktions (TVA).
sheet and overlay.
Quantify desired effects for
Draft TSM or modified
EFSTs.
TSM.
Plan methods for EFSTs:
Collection plan.
Allocate assets to acquire
and attack.
Integrate triggers with
maneuver COA.
Use battle calculus.
Assist S-2 in collection plan
development to support target
acquisition CCIRs.
3. Course of Action War Game.
INPUTS
Draft fires paragraph.
Draft FSEM.
Draft target list worksheet and
overlay.
Draft TSM or modified TSM.
Collection plan.
PROCESS
OUTPUTS
Targeting decisions: finalize Final draft for each COA:
HPTL.
Fires paragraph.
War game fire support plan
Fire support appendix:
against enemy COAs.
FSEM.
Test and refine fire support
Target list worksheet
plan.
and overlay.
Modify draft fire support plans
TSM.
for each COA.
Refined HPTL, AGM, and
TSS.
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4. Course of Action Comparison and Decision.
INPUTS
PROCESS
Final drafts for each COA of:
Understand higher maneuver and fire support plans.
Fires paragraph
Organize and analyze
Fire support appendix: FSEM. facts.
Target list worksheet and I d e n t i f y s p e c i f i e d a n d
overlay.
implied fire support tasks.
TSM or modified TSM.
Translate status of fire supR e f i n e d H P T L , A G M , a n d port assets into capabiliTSS.
ties.
Analyze effects of IPB on
fire support.
Use above to develop draft
EFSTs.
OUTPUTS
Commander-approved COA.
FSC identifies refinements to
templates and tools for
selected COA.
Fire support warning order.
5. Orders Development.
INPUTS
Commander’s selected COA.
Identified refinements to fire support
templates and tools for the selected
COA.
PROCESS
OUTPUTS
Refine any changes to COA Final fire support plan:
made during the decision
Fires paragraph.
process.
Fire support appendix:
Finalize and reproduce
written products.
FSEM.
Prepare orders brief.
Target list worksheet
and overlay.
Target synchronization matrix.
HPTL, AGM, and
TSS.
6. Transition.
INPUTS
OPORD.
PROCESS
Disseminate order.
OUTPUTS
Rehearsals.
Backbrief.