4-6 COA Dev Guidance

COA DEVELOPMENT

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Narrator: The commanders COA development guidance focuses the planning effort without inhibiting the OPT’s thought processes. This will aid the OPT in determining warfighting function roles and or lines of operation, the types of operations to consider, forms of maneuver, phases of the operation, the location of critical events, decisive, shaping, and sustaining actions, and other aspects of the operation pertinent to COA development. This is the MEF Commander's COA development guidance for operation BARBARY SWORD.

Commander's Guidance:


Maintain Op Tempo

Provide Sync matrix by event

Provide Relative Combat Power Assessment (RCPA)

Focus on Security of Lines of Communication

What is the Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG) up to in our rear area?

Concern: Indigenous Displaced Persons and the Information Operations fight

What conditions are we leaving behind?


INTEL:

Location of WMD, 102nd Bde, 201st Bde, Indep Arty regiments

Provide IPB products

Identify Named and Target Areas of Interest


MANEUVER:

Plan for a robust mobile reserve


C2:

Define control measures for Fire Support, FPOL, etc.


FIRES/EW:

Focus on Enemy Artillery and C2 nodes


LOG:

Tap in on HNS, move support forward, and secure the rear area

  • Focus the planning effort
  • Assist not inhibit
  • Warfighting function roles
  • Types of operation
  • Decisive, shaping and sustaining actions