text: Chapter 8
  ⚫ Information gaps in deep operations intelligence and developing collection strategies to fill those
  gaps.
  ⚫ Support to protection activities.
  ⚫ Support to security activities.
  ⚫ Activities to consolidate gains.
  ⚫ Integrating intelligence, civil information, military information support operations, cyberspace,
  and electromagnetic activities.
  ⚫ The convergence of capabilities from multiple domains to isolate, penetrate, and disintegrate an
  enemy’s integrated fires commands and IADSs.
  Close Operations
  8-42. Until enemy forces are defeated or destroyed in close operations, they retain the ability to fight and
  hold ground. Close operations include the deep, close, and rear operations of their subordinate maneuver
  formations. For example, divisions and separate brigades conduct corps close operations. BCTs are the
  primary forces conducting division close operations. (See FM 3-0.) Due to the relationships of these
  operations, intelligence activities must be synchronized across the operational areas. G-S/S-2s at all echelons
  must ensure the intelligence effort is synchronized and unified, lessening the possibility for gaps in
  information collection coverage.
  8-43. Close operations occur in the close area—the portion of the commander’s area of operations where
  the majority of subordinate maneuver forces conduct close combat (ADP 3-0). The close area contains the
  current battles and engagements of its major maneuver units. For example—
  ⚫ A field army’s close area is where its committed corps and divisions conduct operations.
  ⚫ A corps’ close area includes the deep, close, and rear areas of its committed divisions and
  separate maneuver brigades.
  ⚫ A division’s close area is primarily where BCTs operate.
  8-44. Speed and mobility are essential to close operations to exploit windows of opportunity by rapidly
  concentrating overwhelming combat power at the right time and location. Close operations comprise the
  following activities:
  ⚫ Maneuver of subordinate formations (including counterattacks).
  ⚫ Close combat (including offensive and defensive operations).
  ⚫ Indirect fire support (including counterfire, close air support, EA, and offensive space and
  cyberspace operations against enemy forces in direct physical contact with friendly forces).
  ⚫ Information collection.
  ⚫ Sustainment support of committed units.
  8-45. Intelligence activities in close operations (corps and division) focus on—
  ⚫ Continuous monitoring of threat activities in corps and division deep areas.
  ⚫ Gaining and maintaining information concerning threat activities and intentions:
  ▪ Locating and targeting HPTs.
  ▪ Locating and targeting bypassed forces.
  ▪ Locating enemy reserve forces.
  ▪ Identifying and exploiting windows of opportunity across all domains and dimensions.
  ▪ Locating threat capabilities that may impact sustainment operations.
  ⚫ Considering flexibility when planning information collection.
  ⚫ Achieving relative advantages across relevant domains and dimensions.
  ⚫ Synchronizing the use of intelligence handover lines.
  ⚫ Activities to consolidate gains.
  ⚫ Support to security operations.
  ⚫ Protecting critical infrastructure and key lines of communications for future operations.
  ⚫ Ensuring continuous updates to the CIP.