text: Fighting for Intelligence During Large-Scale Combat Operations
  Deep Operations
  8-37. At the operational level, deep operations influence the timing, location, and enemy forces involved in
  future battles; at the tactical level, deep operations set conditions for success during close operations and
  subsequent engagements. The principal effects of deep operations focus on an enemy force’s freedom of
  action and the coherence and tempo of their operations. (See ATP 3-94.2 for doctrine on deep operations.)
  8-38. Deep operations contribute to setting the conditions to transition to the next phase of an operation (for
  example, from a defensive to an offensive operation). Deep operations are not simply attacking an enemy
  force in depth; instead, they are the sum of all activities that influence when, where, and in what condition
  enemy forces will be committed. Deep operations are normally planned and controlled at theater army, corps,
  and division levels. The following activities are typically conducted as part of deep operations either singly
  or in combination:
  ⚫ Deception.
  ⚫ Information collection and target acquisition.
  ⚫ Interdiction (by ground or air fires, ground or aerial maneuver, cyberspace forces, special
  operations forces, or any combination of these).
  ⚫ Long-range fires against enemy IADSs, sustainment nodes, fires capabilities, and echeloned
  follow-on maneuver formations.
  ⚫ EW.
  ⚫ Information advantage activities.
  ⚫ Offensive cyberspace operations.
  ⚫ Space operations.
  ⚫ Military information support operations.
  8-39. Not all activities focused forward of the line of contact are deep operations. For example, counterfire
  primarily supports close operations although the targets attacked may be located at great distances from the
  forward line of troops.
  8-40. Deep operations focus on the enemy vulnerabilities and capabilities most dangerous to the next close
  operation. These operations involve efforts to prevent uncommitted or out-of-contact enemy maneuver forces
  from being committed coherently or preventing enemy enabling capabilities, such as fires and air defense,
  from creating effects in the close area. Attacks must employ enough combat power to achieve the desired
  result. This is critical when—as is frequently the case—maintaining momentum in close operations depends
  on the successful prosecution of deep operations.
  8-41. Intelligence support to deep operations is an inherent part of intelligence support to targeting. IPOE
  and information requirements related to deep operations include—
  ⚫ Gaining and maintaining threat activities and intentions, which focus on—
  ▪ Locating the enemy reserve.
  ▪ Locating enemy forces capable of impacting the close fight.
  ▪ Locating long-range fires capabilities and other A2 and AD capabilities.
  ▪ Locating C2 nodes.
  ▪ Locating logistics nodes.
  ▪ Disrupting enemy recruiting activities.
  ▪ Enemy intentions during friendly transitions.
  ⚫ Key and decisive terrain associated with the deep operation.
  ⚫ Enemy indicators that allow the commander to identify time windows to conduct deep
  operations.
  ⚫ HPTs and target system components vulnerable to attack as well as the most effective method of
  attack.
  ⚫ BDA to determine if the correct target was attacked, the results of that attack, if reattack is
  required, and the impact of the attack on enemy COAs.