CUI Fire Support Coordination in the Ground Combat Element

CUI Fire Support Coordination in the Ground Combat Element CUI MCTP three dash ten F CUI

FOREWORD

Marine Corps Tactical Publication three dash ten F, Fire Support Coordination in the Ground Combat Element, is a framework for coordinating and employing supporting arms in consonance with maneuver elements. It applies to the ground combat element of the Marine air-ground task force and provides reference for Marines that plan, coordinate, and execute fires and effects in support of the ground combat element. While this publication covers many aspects of fire support; it focuses on fire support coordination in the infantry division, regiment, and battalion. It applies across the competition continuum and is studied along with Marine Corps Warfighting Publication three dash thirty-one, Marine Air Ground Task Force Fires and Effects.

Fire support doctrine is based on a common understanding of the nature of war and on our warfighting philosophy as described in Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication one, Warfighting. This doctrine provides for fast, flexible, and decisive action in a complex environment characterized by friction, uncertainty, fluidity, and rapid change. This publication is a field reference guide for commanders, their staffs, and fire support coordination personnel and forms the basis for specific fire support coordination tactics, techniques, and procedures.

This publication supersedes Marine Corps Warfighting Publication three dash sixteen, Fire Support Coordination in the Ground Combat Element, dated twenty-eight November two thousand one, erratum dated two May two thousand sixteen, and change one dated four April two thousand eighteen.

Summary of Changes

· Chapter one presents fires and effects tasks.

· Chapter one introduces information and some of the lexicon associated with it.

· Chapter one introduces the Marine littoral regiment and associated maneuver and fires elements.

· In Chapter three, step one of the Marine Corps Planning Process changes from mission analysis to problem framing in accordance with Marine Corps Warfighting Publication five dash ten, Marine Corps Planning Process.

· In Chapter three, the designation of the Fire Support Appendix changes from Appendix nineteen to Appendix seventeen of Annex C, Operations in accordance with Marine Corps Warfighting Publication five dash ten. It also reflects that Appendix three to Annex C Operations has become Information Operations.

· Chapter three significantly expands discussion on course of action development steps for the staff.

· Chapter three now includes planning considerations for stabilization and breaching operations, as well as a detailed discussion about urban operations.

· Chapter four was renamed "Engagement" instead of "Targeting" to include the pursuit of nonlethal effects against neutral and friendly entities in the battlespace.

· Chapter four introduces new terms for engagement, including relevant actor, audiences, target audience, entity, engagement guidance, high-payoff entity list, engagement synchronization matrix, network analysis, entity evaluation criteria, entity analysis, and civil preparation of the battlespace.

· Chapter four introduces the information models political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure and areas, structures, capabilities, organizations, people, and events into the decide step of decide, detect, deliver, and assess and criticality, accessibility, recuperability, vulnerability, effect, and recognizability.

· Chapter four addresses more deliberate engagement processes like decide, detect, deliver, and assess and more dynamic engagement processes like find, fix, track, target, engage, and assess and find, fix finish, exploit, analyze, and disseminate.

· Chapter five no longer has a section on emerging munitions as that area is evolving quickly.

· The appendices were streamlined for brevity, directing the reader to other publications where appropriate.

· Appendix C now includes more details on effects and a desired effects description table to assist in engagement efforts.

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