“Targeting” in the broad sense of the word at the battalion task force level involves incorporating lethal and nonlethal resources and methods to destroy/influence not only the enemy but the civilian populace with the intended end-state of defeating enemy activities and denying sanctuary. The task force S-2 plays a key role in targeting by analyzing past enemy activities, identifying trends, determining enemy intent, and making recommendations to best target the individuals or events. “Kinetic targeting,” however, is primarily the responsibility of the task force S-2. This process involves identifying individual targets, creating targeting packets on them, capturing them, and detaining them. In order to do this process you must understand who the enemy is and what motivates him, how his cell network is constructed, how to create a targeting packet, how to plan and coordinate the raid, and what the detention process is.
Kinetic Targeting
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