text: Chapter 3
  3-42. Expeditionary and surge forces may lack the ability to rapidly integrate allied and partner capabilities
  into crisis action planning without SFA shaping efforts in competition. A key SFA support activity in crisis
  is to enable an agile response by the joint force in the rapid transition to combat operations. SFA forces co-
  located or embedded with the partner FSF can—
  * Support and enable integration and synchronization of U.S. and partner activities.
  * Provide insight on key capability gaps within the partner FSF structure.
  * Provide “on-the-ground” situational awareness to theater planners.
  * Help to ensure unity of purpose and mutual support in offensive operations.
  * Enable the joint force to maintain freedom of action and positions of relative advantage.
  3-43. SFA forces and SA activities may also be positioned or repositioned outside of the crisis area to build
  coalition combat power for future offensive operations in a joint operational area.
  RELATIVE ADVANTAGES IN CRISIS
  3-44. SC can enable positional advantage to ensure that the right forces are in the right place at the right time
  to meet the requirements of the joint force. Relative advantage in crisis hinges upon enduring presence
  through a combination of assigned forces, rotational forces, and access to key capabilities.
  3-45. SC can enable the joint force to rapidly build relative advantage in crisis. Many partner forces have
  effective land components but lack sufficient air and cyber domain capabilities for multidomain operations.
  U.S. joint forces can rapidly self-deploy air domain capabilities to a crisis area or support through the air
  domain from basing in the continental United States. Cyber domain capabilities can also operate from the
  United States. SC elements can provide the means to integrate and converge these capabilities with partner
  force land domain capabilities by embedding and accompanying partner nation land forces. This can be done
  with SC forces already in theater when crisis or conflict occurs, or by rapidly deploying small SFA teams to
  execute the mission. This can build immediate and credible combat power for the joint force while large U.S.
  land formations are still enroute to the operational area.
  3-46. These operations will be more cost effective by employing smaller SC teams to build partner capacity
  and capability and enable interoperability during competition, and then surge as embedded support teams
  during crisis. Surging SC support teams will provide the multinational force commander with positional
  advantage at echelon to ensure that integrated deterrence effects are maximized.
  SUPPORT TO THE JOINT FORCE DURING CRISIS
  3-47. SC can provide support to the joint force in crisis through—
  * Providing early warning and conflict type determination.
  * Maintaining persistent advisory presence.
  * Supporting the multidomain task force.
  * Holding adversary interests at risk.
  * Enabling partner FSF resiliency inside adversarial A2/AD networks.
  Providing Early Warning and Conflict Type Determination
  3-48. SC activities provide a method to overcome the tyrannies of distance and time. They can provide early
  and sustained indicators to enable conflict type determination and situational understanding based on forward
  presence and standing relationships in an area of operations.
  Maintaining Persistent Advisory Presence
  3-49. SC forces can anticipate possible crisis areas during competition and work to maintain a persistent
  advisory presence in that area. In situations where a crisis occurs without a persistent SC presence in place,
  SC forces should be prepared to rapidly reposition to surge to the crisis area either from within the theater or
  from the continental United States, to enable the rapid integration of forward-stationed forces.