text: Operations During Armed Conflict
  DIVISIONS DURING TRANSITION TO POST-CONFLICT COMPETITION
  6-263. During transition, divisions will likely conduct simultaneous offense, defense, and stability
  operations. Divisions must sustain those forces in combat operations concurrently with stability operations.
  In addition, division support assets must be prepared to displace from established support areas, through areas
  where security may not yet be established, to new support areas to better support those forces in combat
  operations prior to area security being established.
  6-264. Divisions perform the stability tasks necessary to create conditions within an AO that allow for
  transition to a legitimate civilian authority or a unified action partner to act as a transitional authority.
  Divisions also manage brigades as they conduct SFA to build the capability and capacity of foreign security
  forces. Finally, divisions dissuade adversaries from reinitiating hostile or disruptive operations and persuade
  them to abide by sanctions, laws, or international dictates.
  BRIGADES DURING TRANSITION TO POST-CONFLICT COMPETITION
  6-265. Task-organized BCTs perform most area security tasks, and they facilitate the accomplishment of
  most stability tasks in concert with unified action partners. Army forces take specific actions upon
  culmination of large-scale combat operations. These actions include—
  (cid:122) Consolidation.
  (cid:122) Establishing area security.
  (cid:122) Conducting stability tasks.
  6-266. The transition from large-scale combat operations to area security tasks entails risk. Units shifting
  focus from combat to consolidation are vulnerable to counterattack. Historical evidence suggests a force is
  most vulnerable after a hard-fought win. Commanders and staffs should plan for a quick transition and stress
  the importance of local security. (See FM 3-90-1 for additional information on consolidation.)
  6-267. Forces first perform minimum-essential stability tasks, and then they maintain or reestablish a stable
  operational environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure
  reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. BCTs further develop and reassess situations, perceptions, and
  opportunities through continuous information collection to maintain positive momentum to achieve
  additional gains.