Defensive Operations of Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield

Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) is a very critical step in gaining expert knowledge of the environments, layout and demographic features, and how it affects the unit's defensive operations and activities. While gaining an understanding of the IPB its advantages and disadvantages while applying it to our unit’s battle plan will require some critical thinking, the resulting outcome will be a better-prepared organization with a solid plan to defend our forces from whatever adversary we may encounter
IPB is a methodical continuous process that consists of four steps, which done in order to conduct an effective IPB. The first step is define the battlefield environment, step two describe the battlefield effects, step three evaluate the threat, and step four determine threat causes of action (COA).
Defining the battle field environment, is a process which can be broken down into three steps
• Identify characteristics on the battlefield, which influences friendly and threat operations.
• Establish the confines of the area of interest (AI).
• Identify ga...