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  ⚫ Preparing to transition and execute operation plans (OPLANs).
  ⚫ Training and developing leaders for operations in specific theaters.
  ⚫ Promoting and protecting U.S. national interests and influence.
  ⚫ Building partner capacity and partnerships.
  ⚫ Recognizing and countering adversary attempts to gain positions of relative advantage across the
  domains and dimensions.
  4-16. Competition activities are continuous within an area of responsibility (AOR). Army forces participate
  in and conduct numerous other activities to support the CCDR’s theater campaign plan. These activities
  include developing intelligence, countering weapons of mass destruction, providing support to humanitarian
  efforts, achieving information advantages, and organizing and participating in combined training and
  exercises. The CCDR uses these activities to improve security within partner nations, enhance international
  legitimacy, gain multinational cooperation, and influence adversary decision making. This cooperation
  includes exchanging information and sharing intelligence, obtaining access for U.S. forces in peacetime and
  crisis, and mitigating conditions that could lead to crisis and armed conflict.
  4-17. The theater army and subordinate Army forces perform the following major activities during
  competition:
  ⚫ Execute flexible deterrent options and flexible response options.
  ⚫ Set the theater across warfighting functions, including in terms of preparing for intelligence
  operations and intelligence staff activities during crisis and armed conflict.
  ⚫ Tailor Army forces.
  ⚫ Project the force. (See appendix C.)
  4-18. Other competition activities include but are not limited to—
  ⚫ Exchanging information and sharing intelligence with unified action partners.
  ⚫ Assisting allies and partners to improve their military capabilities and capacity.
  ⚫ Medical support.
  ⚫ Cooperative training.
  ⚫ Supporting local institutions.
  4-19. Operations during competition consist of various long-term military engagements, security
  cooperation, and deterrence missions, tasks, and actions. Typically, these operations also occur to support
  the CCDR’s theater campaign plan or theater security cooperation plan. CCDRS use these plans as tools to
  organize, integrate, and execute joint operations.
  CONSOLIDATING GAINS
  4-20. Experience proves that Army force activities conducted during competition assist in ensuring stability
  and reduce the potential for man-made crises or armed conflict throughout a region, even in locations where no
  previous combat has occurred. During competition, Army forces may consolidate gains from previous conflicts
  for many years as JFCs seek to maintain relative advantages against a specific adversary and sustain enduring
  political outcomes. Examples of consolidating gains during competition include but are not limited to—
  ⚫ Increasing theater supply stocks.
  ⚫ Developing and revising detailed contingency plans and perfecting tactical tasks to execute
  OPLANs for large-scale combat operations.
  ⚫ Promoting interoperability with host-nation units. This consideration includes intelligence
  agreements, exercises, interoperability agreements with unified action partners, and expedited
  means to revise intelligence sharing agreements, when necessary.
  ⚫ Promoting and facilitating civil-military integration and interorganizational cooperation between
  unified action partners and indigenous populations and institutions responsible for executing
  governance.
  ⚫ Infrastructure improvement. This consideration includes constant revisions and measures to
  improve the survivability of the intelligence architecture within the theater.