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  employ obscuration and screening fires to deceive the enemy of the BCT’s actual intentions. Obscuration
  fires (placed on or near enemy positions) decrease an enemy’s capability to visually sight friendly forces.
  Screening fires (delivered in areas between friendly and an enemy force) degrade enemy detection,
  observation,and engagement capabilities to enable friendly maneuver and action. The commander employs
  fires to disrupt enemy counterattacks and neutralize bypassed enemy combat forces. The commander
  employs fires to conduct CEMA to degrade, neutralize, or destroy enemy combat capability. The BCT
  neutralizes the enemy’s indirect fires through counterfire.
  6-194. Fires assets are usually positioned forward so they can cover the objective and beyond without
  having to displace. The field artillery battalion positions its batteries as close as possible to the line of
  departure. The battalion heavy mortars position themselves close to assault units and are prepared to displace
  forward as required. Attached platoons from Infantry weapons companies or SBCT weapons troop may
  displace by sections and closely follow the maneuver companies. Close air support and Army aviation attacks
  identify and attack preplanned targets.
  Step 5,Follow Through
  6-195. After seizing an objective,the BCT commander has two alternatives: exploit success and continue
  the attack or terminate the operation. Normally,the BCT maintains contact and attempts to exploit its success.
  Indirect and direct fires may continue to suppress other enemy positions. Follow-on forces, which may or
  may not be part of the BCT,can conduct a forward passage of lines to continue the attack.
  6-196. The most likely on-order mission is to continue the attack after seizing an objective. During
  consolidation,the commander continues the MDMP(or rapid decision-making and synchronization process,
  chapter 3) in preparation for any on order missions assigned by a higher headquarters.
  SUBORDINATE FORMS OF THE ATTACK
  6-197. The BCT can launch subordinate forms of the attack with various purposes to achieve different
  results. Special purpose attacks are ambush,counterattack,demonstration,feint,raid,and spoiling attack.
  6-198. Anambushis an attack by fire or other destructive means from concealed positions on a moving or
  temporarily halted enemy (FM 3-90-1). The three forms of an ambush are point ambush,area ambush,and
  antiarmorambush. An ambush isgenerallyconducted at the small unit level and takes the form of an assault
  to close with and destroy the enemy,or it might be an attack by fire only,executed from concealed positions.
  An ambush does not require seizing or holding the ground. Ambushes are generally executed to reduce the
  enemy force’s overall combat effectiveness through destruction, although other reasons could be to harass
  and capture the enemy or capture enemy equipment and supplies.
  6-199. Acounterattackis an attack by part or all of a defending force against an enemy attacking force,for
  such specific purposes as regaining groundlost or cutting off or destroying enemy advance units,and with
  the general objective of denying to the enemy the attainment of the enemy’s purpose in attacking. In sustained
  defensive actions, it is undertaken to restore the battle position and is directed at limited objectives
  (FM3-90-1). The commander plans counterattacks as part of the BCT’s defensive plan, or the BCT might
  be the counterattack force for the higher headquarters. The BCT must provide the counterattack force with
  enough combat power and mobility to affect the enemy’s offense.
  6-200. A demonstration in military deception, is a show of force similar to a feint without actual contact
  with the adversary,in an area where a decision is not sought that is made to deceive an adversary (JP 3-13.4).
  The BCT commander uses demonstrations and feints in conjunction with other military deception activities.
  The commandergenerally attempts to deceive the enemy and induce the enemy commander to move reserves
  and shift fire support assets to locations where they cannot immediately affect the friendly decisive operation
  or take other actions not conducive to the enemy’s best interests during the defense. The BCT commander
  must synchronize the conduct of these forms of attack with higher and lower echelon plans and operations to
  prevent inadvertently placing another unit at risk. Both forms are always shaping operations,but afeint will
  require more combat power and usually requires ground combat units for execution. (See FM 3-90-1 for
  additional information.)