Defining goals
Defining goals is a disciplined effort to produce decisions and actions that shape and guide an organization’s purpose and activities, particularly concerning the future [Encyclopedia Britannica].
The objective is the clearly defined, decisive, and attainable goals toward which every military operation should be directed. [Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, p. 313]
Target is an area, complex, installation, force, equipment, capability, function, or behavior identified for possible action to support the commander’s objectives, guidance, and intent. Targets fall into two general categories: planned and immediate [Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, p. 430].
Planned targets are known to exist in an operational area and against which effects are scheduled in advance or are on-call. Examples range from targets on joint target lists in the appropriate campaign plans to targets detected insufficient time to list in the air tasking order, mission-type orders, or fire support plans. Planned targets have two subcategories: scheduled or on-call [Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, p. 337]. Scheduled targets are planned targets upon which fires will be delivered at a specific time [Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, p. 384].
Strategic planning. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from: https://www.britannica.com/topic/strategic-planning-organization.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Washington United States. (2001). Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. United States: Joint chiefs of staff Washington dc. Retrieved from: https://www.academia.edu/4492332/Dictionary_Of_Military_Terms.