Joint Fires And Targeting Handbook

Joint Fires and Targeting Handbook

The Joint Fires and Targeting Handbook provides established and evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures used by personnel involved in day-to-day joint fires and targeting processes. This handbook serves as a bridge between current operational-level doctrine and tactical-level employment at the joint force level. It is intended to inform doctrine writers, educators, and trainers about the joint targeting process. It supplements, not replaces, existing joint or Service doctrine. The handbook is designed for use by personnel assigned to (or participating in) a joint targeting effort. It also presents well developed definitions that have been harmonized with joint doctrine and discusses those "best practices" that have proven of value during on-going military operations, exercises, and experimentation. The handbook is meant to educate the joint community about the joint fires and targeting processes and to offer some useful techniques and procedures that can be used in the combatant commands and subordinate units by commanders and their staffs.

Commander's handbook for joint timesensitive targeting

Joint Fires and Targeting Handbook

The fires function and targeting process continues to mature at an accelerated pace as joint, coalition, and supporting forces remain engaged in on-going, high-tempo operations. These continuing operations reinforce the need for knowledgeable and efficient planners, targeteers, and weaponeers. Emerging technologies and joint warfighter experiences combine to turn lessons learned into improved and new joint fires and targeting planning, execution, and assessment best practices. Many of these innovative procedures are recognized by the joint community, but they are not yet approved joint doctrine. This handbook was developed to ensure commonly accepted best practices for planning, executing, and assessing joint fires and targeting are documented. While this handbook does contain extracts from many doctrinal publications, it is not approved joint doctrine, but serves as an important pre-doctrinal product that will aid its refinement. United States Joint Forces Command developed this handbook for combatant commanders, subordinate joint force commanders, joint force staff members, and first tactical echelon personnel.