MCRP 3-10A.2 governs infantry company operations involving the operational environment, adversaries, courses of action, and objectives.
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It covers defining the operational environment, describing effects on operations, evaluating the adversary, determining adversary courses of action, and seizing the objective. The publication provides a foundation for infantry company commanders and staffs in planning, execution, and assessment of company level operations.
Applies to: This publication is intended for the infantry platoon and company commanders and their staffs.
The company commander is responsible for continuing terrain evaluation at the company level. (paragraph 4-2)
While HHQ provides weather forecasts, companies are responsible for determining their own assessments of how weather impacts friendly and enemy operations. (paragraph 4-1)
Following the IPB process automatically produces adversary threat models with greater and greater detail, which is important to company commanders because planning time is always at a premium and it is impossible to plan for every contingency. (paragraph 4-3)
The company’s intelligence specialist collects data from enemy activities, assesses trends and patterns, and creates a common profile. (paragraph 4-3)
Combining adversary templates with the effects of terrain and weather produces situation templates. (paragraph 4-3)