text: Fighting for Intelligence During Large-Scale Combat Operations
  Fluid Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, and Integration
  Operations
  As part of peer threat A2 and AD, long-range strike capabilities mean that sanctuary to conduct
  unimpeded RSOI operations in rear areas can no longer be assumed; it is likely that strikes by
  peer threats will degrade or destroy port and other transportation infrastructure vital to U.S force
  projection. This can cause Army forces to arrive in a disaggregated manner and disrupt RSOI
  operations. While integrating U.S. forces in theater can be challenging, Army planners must
  consider host-nation requirements for logistics infrastructure. The host nation’s response to an
  attack on its infrastructure, including its military mobilization, can affect freedom of movement
  for U.S. forces. These challenges may require JFCs to alter their operational plans or remain
  defensively postured until sufficient combat power is built to enable offensive operations.
  The theater army has primary responsibility for conducting RSOI operations for the entire joint
  land force. Once the E-MIB is set in theater, the theater army may task the E-MIB commander
  and staff to assist in conducting RSOI as subsequent MI units deploy. However, executing
  RSOI is primarily a unit responsibility. The deploying unit must conduct detailed planning and
  proper coordination before deploying. Planning must include mitigation actions in the event
  systems are damaged or destroyed and MI Soldiers are injured or killed during deployment.
  Army equipment may arrive haphazardly across numerous ports. Commanders must
  establish secure communications, allowing staff coordination for unit personnel to meet their
  equipment and facilitate ship offloading. Units provide port support teams with the right
  personnel and capabilities, such as licensed vehicle operators and communications, to
  expedite port operations. This assists in ensuring ports of debarkation are not congested with
  disabled equipment or frustrated cargo. If some unit equipment is lost in transit due to the
  destruction of transport vessels, some tactical unit personnel may be held temporarily at
  theater facilities to facilitate re-equipping efforts, or they may be retasked by the combatant
  command or theater army commander.
  OPERATIONAL CHALLENGE
  8-12. As friendly forces flow into the theater, they will be faced with the intensity, lethality, and brutality of
  large-scale combat operations, which create complex, chaotic, fearful, violent, fatiguing, and uncertain
  conditions. Battlefields will include noncombatants crowded in and around dense urban areas. To further
  complicate operations, enemies will employ conventional and unconventional tactics, terrorism, criminal
  activities, systems warfare, and information warfare. Activities in the information dimension will often be
  inseparable from ground operations.
  8-13. Conflicts encompassing large-scale combat operations are more intense and destructive than limited
  contingencies. During large-scale combat operations, peer threats will mass effects across multiple domains
  and dimensions at speeds that will significantly impact ongoing operations. Peer threats will employ many
  highly lethal and sophisticated capabilities, such as information warfare, cyberspace attacks, counterspace
  measures, long-range massed fires, IADSs, EW, deception, reconnaissance, and counterreconnaissance, to
  deny and degrade friendly force maneuver, communications, information collection, and targeting
  capabilities, particularly when they are static.
  8-14. Large-scale combat operations typically entail—
  ⚫ High-resource consumption, high casualty rates, and an incredible level of stress on all aspects
  of sustainment. Flexibility and adaptability at all echelons are critical.
  ⚫ The deliberate and imaginative use of capabilities within and across all domains synchronized to
  create effects across all dimensions to gain and exploit positions of relative advantage.
  ⚫ The ability to effectively provide the joint force with important capabilities and employ joint
  capabilities when they are allocated.
  ⚫ Focusing operational and mission variables through the sequence of planning and execution
  necessary to apply combat power on threat defeat mechanisms.