Battlespace is a term used to signify a unified military strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations, including air, information, land, sea, and space to achieve military goals. It includes the environment, factors, and conditions that must be understood to successfully apply combat power, protect the force, or complete the mission. This includes enemy and friendly armed forces, infrastructure, weather, terrain, and the electromagnetic spectrum within the operational areas and areas of interest.^[1][2]

Concept[link]

Battlespace awareness[link]

Battlespace awareness (BA), is a practice of military philosophy that is used as a valuable asset by joint -component and -force commanders, to predict courses of action before employing troops into a prescribed area of operation (AO). It utilizes the intelligence preparation asset to assist the commander in being 'aware' of recent, current, and near term events in his battlespace.^[3]

It is based around its knowledge and understanding obtained by the an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) system. It is another methodical concept used to gain information about the operational area—the environment, factors, and conditions, including the status of friendly and adversary forces, neutrals and noncombatants, weather and terrain—that enables timely, relevant, comprehensive and accurate assessments. It has become an effective concept for conventional and unconventional operations in successfully projecting, or protecting, a military force, and/or completing its mission.^[4]

Battlespace digitization[link]

Battlespace digitization is designed to improve military operational effectiveness by integrating weapons platforms, sensor networks, ubiquitous command and control (UC2), intelligence, and network-centric operations. This military doctrine reflects that in the future, military operations will be merged into joint operations rather than take place in separate battlespaces under the domain of individual armed services.

Battlespace intelligence preparation[link]

Intelligence preparation[link]

Intelligence preparation of the battlespace (IPB) is an analytical methodology employed to reduce uncertainties concerning the enemy, environment, and terrain for all types of operations. Intelligence preparation of the battlespace builds an extensive database for each potential area in which a unit may be required to operate.

The database is then analyzed in detail to determine the impact of the enemy, environment and terrain on operations and presents it in graphic form. Intelligence preparation of the battlespace is a continuing process.

Joint intelligence preparation[link]

Joint intelligence preparation of the battlespace (JIPB) is the analytical process used by joint intelligence organizations to produce intelligence assessments, estimates and other intelligence products in support of the joint force commander's decision making process. It is a continuous process that includes defining the total battlespace environment; describing the battlespace's effects; evaluating the adversary; and determining and describing adversary potential courses of action.

The process is used to analyze the aerial, terrestrial, maritime/littoral, spatial, electromagnetic, cyberspace, and human dimensions of the environment and to determine an opponent's capabilities to operate in each. JPIB products are used by the joint force and component command staffs in preparing their estimates and are also applied during the analysis and selection of friendly courses of action.

Battlespace measures[link]

Maneuver control[link]

Maneuver control measures are the basic preliminary step in effective clearance of fire support (e.g. artillery, Naval gunfire, and close air support), marked by imaginary boundary lines used by commanders to designate the geographical area for which a particular unit is tactically responsible. It is usually established on identifiable terrain to help aid in hasty referencing for better lateral advantage in the science of fire support, normally orchestrated by a higher echelon of the general staff, mainly the operations staff sections.

They are normally designated along terrain features easily recognizable on the ground. An important point on maneuver control graphics: staffs must be knowledgeable regarding the different maneuver control measures and their impact on clearance of fires. For instance, boundaries are both restrictive and permissive; corridors are restrictive, while routes, axis, and directions of attack are neither.

It should be reminded of the effect on clearance of fires if subordinate maneuver units are not given zones or sectors (i.e. no boundaries established). Since boundaries serve as both permissive and restrictive measures, the decision not to employ them has profound effects upon timely clearance of fires at the lowest possible level.

The higher echelon may coordinate all clearance of fires short of the Coordinated Fire Line (CFL), a very time-intensive process. It allows the unit to maneuver successfully and to swiftly and efficiently engage targets. It requires coordination and clearance only within that organization.

They affect fire support in two ways:^[5]

• Restrictive—Restrictive control that is established in conjunction with a host nation to preclude damage or destruction to a national asset, population center, or religious structure. Its key role are for protection of an element of tactical importance, such as a fuel storage area.
  • Restrictive fire area (RFA) is an area with specific restrictions and in which fires that exceed those restrictions will not be delivered without coordination with the establishing headquarters, or higher echelon; occasionally, it may be established to operate independently.
  • No-fire area (NFA) is a designated area which no fire support may be delivered for fires or effects. When the establishing headquarters allows fires on a mission-by-mission basis. When a friendly force is engaged by an enemy located within the NFA and the commander returns fire to defend his forces. The amount of return fire should not exceed that sufficient to protect the force and continue the mission.

• Permissive—Permissive control that gives the maneuver commander the liberty to announce and engage fire support at his will, unless it otherwise is restricted by a higher echelon. Most cases, a commander will deny the use of Fire Support Coordinating Measures (FSCM).
  • There are free-fire areas (FFA) which fire support can commence without additional coordination with the establishing headquarters. Normally, it is established on identifiable terrain by division or higher headquarters.

Battlespace shaping[link]

Battlespace shaping is a concept involved in the practice of maneuver warfare that are used for shaping a situation on the battlefield, gaining the military advantage for the commander. It forecasts the elimination of the enemy's capability by fighting in a coherent manner before deploying determine-sized forces.^[6]

See also[link]

War portal

• C⁴ISTAR
• Command and control
• Fog of war
• Network-centric warfare

Further reading[link]

• Blackmore, T. (2005). War X: Human Extensions in Battlespace. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-8791-4
• Owens, W. (2002). Dominant Battlespace Knowledge. University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 1-4102-0413-8

References[link]

External links[link]

• Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 1-0: Marine Corps Operations'
• Achieving Dominant Battlespace Awareness
• Joint Synthetic Battlespace: Cornerstone for Predictive Battlespace Awareness
• Battlespace Digitization - Coping With Uncertainty In The Command Process
• Challenges for Joint Battlespace Digitization (JBD)

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Uriah Shelton (born March 10, 1997) is an American teen actor and singer. He is the son of accountant Allen Shelton and house-wife Cindy Shelton. His name means "God is light" in Hebrew.^[1] Shelton was born in Dallas, Texas but spent spent most of his childhood in Magnolia Springs, Alabama with both of his parents. Growing up, Shelton pursued interests in martial arts, piano, and soccer. At the age of 7, he took a modeling class with his cousin, Charli. This led to a talent competition in Orlando, after which he was pursued by multiple agencies in New York and Los Angeles. Realizing that he’d come to love acting, he and his mother decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue his professional career.^[2] Most of his family still lives in Alabama and Tennessee.

Shelton starred in the movie "Lifted," a story about a singer whose family life is disrupted when his Marine father is deployed to Afghanistan. The boy, despite many obstacles, is inspired to compete in a teen singing competition. The film was the inaugural film of producer Deborah Del Prete's Coronet Films. Shelton wrote and sang the song "I Miss You," in the movie.^[3] Dash Mihok, Nicky Aycox, James Handy, "American Idol's" Ruben Studdard and country star Trace Adkins also are in the movie.

Shelton is currently starring in the new A&E drama, "The Glades," a show about a Chicago detective who moved to South Florida with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement after being falsely accused of sleeping with his captain's wife.^[4] He plays Jeff Cargill, the rebellious son of female nurse and love-interest played by Kiele Sanchez.^[5] The show has received acclaim from several leading national newspapers.^[6][7] The Deseret News reported: "With a show like this--a show about a super-smart, super smart-alecky police detective--it's not about the concept, it's about the execution. The characters. The actors. And The Glades looks like a winner on those counts."

Filmography[link]

Feature Films[link]

• Lower Learning (2008) - Prep School Kid
• Opposite Day (2009) - Security Guard
• Alabama Moon (2010) - Kit
• Lifted (2009) - Henry Matthews

Made-for-Television Films[link]

• Ring of Death (2008) - Tommy Wyatt
• The Nanny Express (2008) - Ben Chandler

Television[link]

• Without a Trace (2007) - Brett Hendricks
  • 1 episode: "Fight/Flight"
• Ghost Whisperer (2007) - Young William
  • 1 episode: "Holiday Spirit"
• Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight (2008) - Dakoda
  • 1 episode: "Search for the Dragon"
• Little Monk (2009) - Brian
  • unknown episodes
• The Suite Life on Deck (2009) - Prince Jeffy
  • 1 episode: "Maddie on Deck"
• Trust Me (2009) - Jack McGuire
  • 3 episodes: "Before and After", "All Hell the Victors" and "Odd Man Out"
• Trauma (2009) - Rudy
  • 1 episode: "All's Fair"
• Exit 19 (2010) - Leonard "Leo" Woods
  • no episode aired yet
• R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2011)
  • 1 episode: "My Sister the Witch"
• The Glades (2010) - Jeff Cargill
  • 13 episodes (Season 1 & 2)

"Last Man Standing" (2012) -- Ben Milbauer 1 episode "Ding Dong Ditch"

Commercials[link]

• Dodge Caravan (2007)
• iPhone 4s "Rock God" (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Uriah Shelton at the Internet Movie Database

Alexander Gould
Gould in October 2009
Born	Alexander Jerome Gould (1994-05-04) May 4, 1994 (age 18) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor, voice artist
Years active	2000–present

Alexander Jerome Gould (born May 4, 1994) is an American television actor and voice artist. He is best known for his role as Shane Botwin on the Showtime TV series Weeds and for having provided the voice of Nemo in Pixar's Finding Nemo.

Life and career[link]

Gould, the oldest of three children, was born in Los Angeles, California to Tom and Valerie Gould. Raised Jewish, he is active in his religion and the Conservative Jewish youth group USY.^[1][2][3] He has two younger sisters, Emma and Kelly, who are also actors. Gould begin acting at the age of two and became well known for voicing the title character of Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo. On television, Gould played the role of Shane Botwin on the Showtime dramedy series Weeds, as well as guest-starring in several television series including Ally McBeal, Malcolm in the Middle, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Supernatural, and Pushing Daisies. He also starred as David Collins in the WB remake of the soap opera Dark Shadows, but its pilot episode was rejected by the WB Television Network and it was never aired.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Alexander Gould at the Internet Movie Database