text: Chapter 3
  captured enemy documents must be placed into intelligence channels as soon as possible to ensure that it
  is properly exploited by DOMEX personnel. Pursuit operations are undertaken to destroy or capture forces
  attempting to flee. Artillery, air support, and air assault forces support ground pursuit.
  PURPOSE
  3-150. Strike operations may also be used as a means to encourage reconcilable insurgents to the
  negotiation table. Strike operations are conducted to—
  • Harass the insurgent to prevent the buildup of personnel and logistical resources.
  • Destroy the insurgent force and its base complexes.
  • Demonstrate government resolve and garner support from the populace in the local area.
  • Set the conditions to expand clear-hold-build operations.
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  LINES OF EFFORT
  3-151. Along the LOEs in a strike operation, tactical units should examine—
  Establish Civil Security
  3-152. Conduct attacks, raids, and cordon and searches with HN security forces on insurgent forces
  and bases.
  Establish Civil Control
  3-153. Conduct PRC operations, such as a census, a checkpoint or a search operation in villages
  or blocks to control the populace.
  Support HN Security Forces
  3-154. Increase combat power by using HN security forces.
  Support to Governance
  3-155. Establish or convene local or tribal council meetings to identify and solve the underlying issues
  of the insurgency.
  Restore Essential Services
  3-156. Ensure projects provide positive reinforcement of desired behavior, such as digging a well for a
  tribal sheik who provides intelligence.
  Support to Economic and Infrastructure Development
  3-157. Hire people from villages or blocks that are neutral to increase support for the government.
  Conduct Information Engagements
  3-158. Use information engagements to highlight government success and expose insurgent defeats
  and excesses.
  POPULACE AND RESOURCE CONTROL OPERATIONS
  3-159. Populace and resource control (PRC) operations are government actions to protect the populace
  and its materiel resources from insurgents, to deny insurgents access to the populace and material resources
  and to identify and eliminate the insurgents, their organization, their activities, and influence while doing
  so. The objective of populace and resources control is to assist in preserving or reestablishing a state of law