text: Chapter 7
  7-18. The BCT may defend to conserve combat power for use elsewhere at a later time. The commander
  secures the force through integrated security operations throughout the depth and breadth of its assigned area
  of operations. Long-range reconnaissance and surveillance assets task organized at the division and corps
  level conduct information collection to define and confirm the enemy at extended ranges and in time and
  manner. The commander plans for and employs information-related capabilities and CEMA to confuse the
  enemy as to the BCT’s manner of defense and to aid in securing the force.
  SECTION II – COMMON DEFENSIVE PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS
  7-19. The commander in the defense exploits prepared, mutually supporting positions even though the
  initiative is yielded to the enemy. The commander uses knowledge of the terrain to slow the enemy’s
  momentum. The defending force maintains its security and disrupts the enemy’s attack at every opportunity.
  The defending commander uses long-range fires to reduce the force of the enemy’s initial blow,hinder enemy
  offensive preparations and wrest the initiative from the enemy. The commander draws the enemy into EAs
  to surprise the enemy with concentrated and integrated fires from concealed and protected positions. The
  commander then counterattacks the enemy, repeatedly imposing blows from unexpected directions. The
  following discussion uses the warfighting functions (command and control, movement and maneuver,
  intelligence,fires,sustainment,and protection) and specific operational environments as the framework for
  planning considerations that apply to defensive operations.
  COMMAND AND CONTROL
  7-20. The BCT commander understands,visualizes,and describes the anticipated enemy actions and issues
  commander’s guidance to the staff. Based upon the commander’s guidance, the staff refines the higher
  headquarters’ products to enable the BCT commander to visualize the operational environment. The BCT
  commander and staff refine the higher headquarters’intelligence preparation of the battlefield (IPB) products
  to focus on the details of the operation in the BCT’s area of operations. The higher commander normally
  defines where and how the BCT defeats or destroys the enemy and the operational framework. The BCT
  commander defines (envisions) the BCT’sexecutions of its portion of the higher (division and corps) echelon
  fight.As each decision is made and each action is taken in the presence of risk and uncertainty,commanders
  must anticipate and prevent or mitigate risk,including ethical risks,to support mission accomplishment.
  DEFEAT THE ENEMY
  7-21. The BCT commander and staff analyze how and where to defeat the enemy. The BCT commander
  may define a defeat mechanism that includes use of single or multiple counterattacks to achieve success.
  Subordinate commanders and staffs analyze their unit’s role in the fight and determine how to achieve
  success. In an area defense,usually the BCT achieves success by massing the effects of obstacles and fires
  to defeat the enemy forward of a designated area,often in conjunction with a higher echelon’s counterattack.
  In a delay operation, the BCT achieves success by combining maneuver, fire support, obstacles, and the
  avoidance of decisive engagement until conditions are right to gain time or shape the battlefield for a higher
  echelon’s counterattack.
  ORGANIZE THE DEFENSE
  7-22. The BCT commander organizes in the defense to facilitate the execution of a defensive operation. The
  commander and staff use an operational framework, and associated vocabulary, to help conceptualize and
  describe the concept of operations in time,space,purpose,and resources (see figure 2-3onpage 2-24). An
  operational framework is a cognitive tool used to assist commanders and staffs in clearly visualizing and
  describing the application of combat power in time,space,purpose,and resources in the concept of operations
  (see chapter 2). An operational framework establishes an area of geographic and operational responsibility
  for the commander and provides a way to visualize how the commander will employ forces against the
  enemy. To understand this framework is to understand the relationship between the area of operations and
  operations in depth. Proper relationships allow for simultaneous operations and massing of effects against
  the enemy. (SeeFM 3-0 for additional information.)