1. Campaign Planning Process Working Overview Slides
CCIR / PIR / EEFI
Working Overview Slides
08 Feb 2007
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2. CCIR & PIR Commander's Critical Information Requirements (CCIRs):
List of information required by the commander critical to facilitating timely decision making that affects successful mission accomplishment. Key subcomponents are:
Critical Friendly Force Information. Friendly information with an anticipated & stated priority for planning and decision making (no abbreviation for this term).
Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIR). Intel requirements with an anticipated & stated priority for planning and decision making.
Historically, CCIRs have focused upon intelligence requirements identified by the CCTF & thus the C2 was the primary staff for development of CCIR.
Within an “systems planning approach” to a crisis, CCIRs expand to cover intelligence and information requirements for decision making.
This requires the additional direct support of the C5 (policy), C7 (civil-military), and POLAD (political advisor) to fully outline the CCIR.

3. CCIR & PIR
CCIRs are important to intelligence / information planning & development of the Campaign Plan, OPLANs, & OPORDs.
CCIRs are established early on in the CTF planning process & are continually refined as the situation changes. CCIRs are updated to the CCTF, CTF staff, & components on a recurring basis.

4. EEFI & Critical Info
Essential Elements of Friendly Information (EEFI):
EEFIs are key questions likely to be asked by adversary officials & intelligence systems about specific friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities, to obtain answers critical to their operational effectiveness.
EEFI are critical for operational security (OPSEC), force protection, deception planning, & information operations planning.
While assessing & comparing friendly versus adversary capabilities during the planning process for a specific operation or activity, the commander and staff seek to identify the questions that they believe the adversary will ask about friendly intentions, capabilities, and activities (EEFI).

5. EEFI & Critical Info
In OPLANs / OPORDs, the EEFI are listed in Appendix 3 (Counterintelligence) to Annex B (Intelligence). EEFI can also be referred to or listed in the primary sections of the Campaign Plan Directive, Warning Orders, and OPLANs / OPORDs as desired for reinforcement of the criticality of this information.
Critical information:
Is a subset of EEFI. Information that is vitally needed by an adversary.
Identification of critical information is important – it focuses the remainder of the OPSEC process on protecting vital information rather than attempting to protect all classified or sensitive information.
Critical information is listed in the OPSEC portion of an operation plan or order. Some general categories of critical information are provided in Appendix A, "Examples of Critical Information."