text: Sustainment Operations During Competition Below Armed Conflict
  Army sustainment structures required for replenishment operations. Basic life support funding for SOF forces
  must be coordinated through financial managers.
  3-97. ARSOF elements will require tailored organic ARSOF sustainment capabilities often augmented by
  the ASCC or the designated CCMD lead for CUL support. Special operations-peculiar support and services
  will be provided by United States Special Operations Command in accordance with Title 10, Section 167.
  The nature of the SOF campaign and mission may also require leveraging host-nation, interagency, or
  nonstandard logistics capabilities. See ATP 3-05.40 for more information on ARSOF sustainment and FM
  6-05 for more information on conventional forces and SOF integration, interoperability, and interdependence.
  SECTION III – ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES BY ECHELON
  3-98. Sustainment operations during competition differ from sustainment operations during crisis or armed
  conflict. For example, sustainment tasks to support military engagement and security cooperation are less
  resource intensive than tasks conducted for large-scale combat operations. Regardless of the activities, the
  roles of Army organizations do not change. A role is the broad and enduring purpose for which the
  organization or branch is established (ADP 1-01).
  THEATER ARMY
  3-99. The theater Army’s role is ASCC to a CCMD. The theater Army integrates land power within theater
  engagement plans and security cooperation activities. Integrating land power requires the theater Army to
  train and prepare Army forces for operations and to coordinate training and readiness requirements with
  Service force providers. Integrating land power also includes establishing and extending the network,
  sustainment infrastructure, and leveraging the intelligence enterprise assets and protection capabilities that
  support operations throughout an AOR. The theater Army staff works closely with the TSC to develop plans
  to execute sustainment during operations. Together, these staffs apply all the considerations discussed above
  to develop the plan, and the TSC executes the plan. Key activities during the planning process are—
  • Plan and coordinate sustainment for security cooperation activities such as bilateral and
  multinational exercises to improve multinational interoperability and operations.
  • Plan and coordinate sustainment for missions to train, advise, and equip foreign forces.
  • Provide recommendations to Army representatives negotiating basing and transit rights, establishing
  relationships, and formalizing support agreements.
  • Participate in OPLAN and concept plan development to include the logistics supportability analysis
  and provide logistics estimates to interagency partners.
  3-100. During competition, the theater Army supports the CCMD in conducting missions, tasks, and actions
  that shape the environment to assure friends, deter adversaries, and establish conditions for future
  contingencies. To accomplish this, the theater Army, as the ASCC, executes CCDR daily operational
  requirements while training and preparing for future contingency operations.
  3-101. Executing operational requirements prepares the ASCC to rapidly transition to conflict should the
  CCDR identify an increased threat and an operational requirement in an AOR. Well in advance of any
  conflict, the theater Army ensures the ARFOR or joint force land component commander (JFLCC) targeting
  desires are documented for future inclusion on the resulting joint target list, restricted target list, and no-strike
  list.
  3-102. Should the CCDR identify a potential crisis, the theater Army examines a range of basing and
  deployment options. When the CCDR decides on specific deterrent options, the theater Army begins the
  process of recommending, requesting, and tailoring landpower. This is done while refining plans for the full
  employment of landpower should deterrence fail to resolve the crisis.
  3-103. As soon as feasible, Army forces attached to the theater deploy and the theater Army receives, stages,
  and integrates additional Army forces into an AO. To accomplish this, the theater Army develops additional
  basing requirements. As Army forces deploy into a JOA, the theater Army expands its footprint to sustain
  and protect Army, joint, and multinational forces as directed by the CCDR. Functions executed by the theater
  Army include, but are not limited to—
  • Executing CCDR’s daily operational requirements: