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Planning 07 December 2020 ATP 5-0.2-1 89 ATP 2-01.3 Figure 2-21. Weather forecast and impacts chart example Analyzing Civil Impacts on Operations 2-271. Analyzing civil considerations impacts several aspects of operations, including selection of objectives; location, movement, and control of forces; use of weapons; and protection measures. The intelligence staff should leverage the rest of the staff, and outside agencies who have expertise in civil considerations to analyze intelligence in this area. Leverage nonorganic units, agencies, organizations, or Services that are not deploying with the unit, but have relevant regional knowledge, to assist in generating intelligence. These assets can be especially useful when analyzing cyberspace considerations, which may not be an organic area of expertise in intelligence staffs. STEP 3. EVALUATE THE THREAT 2-272. The purpose of evaluating the threat is to understand how it can affect friendly operations. Although threat forces may conform to some of the fundamental principles of warfare that guide Army operations, these forces have obvious, or subtle, differences in how they approach situations and problem solving. Understanding these differences is essential to understanding how a threat force will react in a given situation. Threat evaluation does not begin with IPB. The intelligence staff conducts threat evaluation and develops models as part of the generate intelligence knowledge task of support to force generation. Intelligence staffs refine these models as necessary to support IPB.