Joint Publication 3-13, Information Operations - The Global ...

Intelligence Support to Information Operations
(d) Credibility of key individuals or groups and specification of their sphere of influence.
(e) Laws, regulations, and procedures relevant to information and decision making,
decision-making processes, capability employment doctrine, timeliness, and information content.
(f) How leaders think, perceive, plan, execute, and assess outcomes of their results
and actions from their perspectives.
(g) Identify key historical events between the target country and the US, which
may affect an individual or group’s attitudes and perceptions of the US, whether in the same or
different country as those they influence.
(4) While these broad types of properties of the information environment illustrate the diversity
of IO intelligence requirements, it is important to note that multiple sources and methods may be required
to collect physical, informational, and cognitive properties of specific collection targets in order to fuse
and analyze different properties in support of IO planning. For instance, if operational planning requires
intelligence on radio stations within an adversary country, that requirement may include the number and
location of broadcast and transmission facilities (physical), the technical specifications of each station
(informational), the identity of owners and key personnel, and the credibility or popularity of each station
(cognitive).
b. Intelligence Support to IO Planning. Intelligence support is an integral part of IO
planning. In particular, the joint intelligence preparation of the battlespace (JIPB) process provides
a valuable methodology for identifying capabilities, vulnerabilities, and critical nodes within the
information environment. JP 2-01.3, Joint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Joint
Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace, discusses JIPB support to IO. A sequential overview
of intelligence support to IO planning includes actions to:
(1) Identify adversary information value, use, flow, and vulnerabilities relevant to
specific types of decision making.
(2) Identify individual systems and target sets relevant to specified adversary or other
TA decision making.
(3) Identify desired effects appropriate to individual systems and target sets.
(4) Predict the consequences (non-objective related outcomes) of identified actions.
(5) Coordinate with planning personnel to establish priority of intelligence requirements.
(6) Assist in developing IO assessment criteria during planning and then assist in
monitoring and assessing IO during execution (which may extend before and after execution of
conventional operations).
(7) Tailor assessment/feedback methodologies to specific operations.
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