text: Chapter 5
  management to move them further towards independent growth. For more information on SFA
  see ATP 3-96.1.
  * The focus of all U.S. FID efforts is to support the host nation's internal defense and development
  program to build the capability and capacity of the host nation to achieve self-sufficiency. FID is
  an Army SOF core activity. While SFA and FID have much in common, FID activities directly
  support organizing, training, equipping, advising, and assisting FSF to combat internal threats,
  while SFA prepares FSF to defend against external threats an perform as a part of an international
  force. FS personnel, TA systems, and FS attack/delivery systems supporting SOF while engaged
  in FID activities are critical to force protection and to assisting FSF defend against internal threats.
  5-4. Regionally assigned and aligned forces provide a CCDR with scalable, tailorable capabilities during
  competition. At the tactical level, units will primarily conduct military engagement through combined
  training and exercises. Combined training and exercises allow multi-national forces to validate shared
  procedures, terminology, graphics, and standards for FS and the delivery of FA fires. At all levels, units
  should maximize interoperable digital systems with multi-national unified action partners, when possible, to
  verify the FS communications plan. Regionally assigned and aligned forces can also shape the environment
  by identifying ports, runways, roads, potential operation areas, PAAs, and ammunition holding areas for
  follow on forces.
  5-5. Foundational training activities contribute to operations during competition by providing a competent,
  credible, deployable force to leaders at the strategic level. Examples include FS and FA personnel participate
  regularly as members of the combined arms team in combat training centers, rotations, and warfighter
  exercises. Obtaining necessary skills through attendance at FS and FA functional courses such as joint fires
  observer, FA mechanic (additional skill identifier, U6), master gunner, special technical operations (referred
  to as STO), and the joint operational fires and effects course are critical to ensuring competent FS personnel
  at all levels.
  SET THE THEATER
  5-6. The theater Army serves as the Army Service component command of the combatant command. The
  Army Service component command is the command responsible for recommendations to the combatant
  commander on the allocation and employment of Army forces (JP 3-31). As an Army Service component
  command, the theater army executes several functions:
  * Exercise C2 over Army forces in the theater.
  * Execute CCDR's daily operational requirements.
  * Provide administrative control of Army forces.
  * Set and maintain the theater.
  * Set and support OAs.
  * Plan and coordinate for consolidation of gains in support of joint operations.
  * Perform joint roles in limited scope, scale, and duration.
  5-7. During competition, the theater army is the primary Army organization that plans, prepares, and
  oversees the execution of operations, activities, and investments conducted by Army forces and assesses the
  results of these activities. It supports and enables the commander’s pursuit and maintenance of operational
  access critical to achieving advantages throughout an AO while improving the security capabilities of partner
  nations. Gaining relative advantages during competition requires intelligence about the adversary’s
  capabilities and intent relative to friendly forces. While adversary intent is more difficult to ascertain, both
  factors are equally important since capability plus malign intent represent a larger immediate threat than
  either factor on its own. This understanding allows theater army commanders to develop their intent and
  recommend actions that impede adversary goals or convince adversaries to seek alternative courses of action
  more favorable to U.S. interests. For more information on setting the theater during competition see FM 3-
  0).