Document Information Download Instructions Operational planning focuses on ensuring successful Tactical planning is a continuous process. Planners, using the commander's intent, recommend priorities for support, allocation of force structure and other resources. Strategic and operational estimates determine whether different courses of action can be sustained and the force's ability to regenerate combat potential.
Planners also examine measures that can reduce the enemy's operational tempo.
Planners integrate NBC defense, nuclear weapons use, non-lethal, and smoke at theater, strategic and operational level as combat multipliers in support of mission accomplishment. For example, NBC defense unit availability increases the force's ability to sustain operations or to regenerate force capability under NBC conditions. The allocation of critical resources, such as large area smoke generation, supports the commander's intent to influence the battle in a given area which improves our force's combat power at a decisive point. Tactical planning is a continuous process. Commanders and staffs incessantly assess how new information impacts current and future operations.