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  Figure 1-2. Financial management core competencies
  FUND THE FORCE
  1-13. Fund the force is the critical capability that matches legal and appropriate sources of funds
  with thoroughly vetted and validated requirements. FM leaders execute this core FM capability across
  the unified land operations. Fund the force applies to all levels of war – strategic, operational and tactical.
  ADP 3-0, Unified Land Operations, acknowledges that strategic success requires full integration of U.S.
  military operations with the efforts of unified action partners. In the context of military operations, strategy
  develops an idea or set of ideas for employing the instruments of national power in a synchronized and
  integrated fashion to achieve theater, national, and/or multinational objectives, JP 3-0, Joint Operations.
  Fund the force at the strategic level entails operations that include setting policy, planning resources,
  interpreting DOD and specific Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) (OUSD(C))
  guidance, coordinating DFAS policies, following congressional legislation, and maintaining effective
  oversight of execution at the program level.
  1-14. The operational level links the tactical employment of forces to national and military strategic
  objectives, JP 3-0, Joint Operations. At this level, FM provides commanders the required resources and
  ensures the resources are used effectively and efficiently in compliance with existing fiscal laws and
  regulations that involve executing funding, anticipating future requirements, and planning supporting
  operations. At the operational level, the primary objective is to establish conditions favorable to the
  successful conduct of tactical operations.
  1-15. Tactics is the employment and ordered arrangement of forces in relation to each other. Joint doctrine
  focuses this term on planning and executing battles, engagements, and activities at the tactical level to
  achieve military objectives assigned to tactical units or task forces, JP 3-0, Joint Operations. Financial
  Management operations at the tactical level focus on short term objectives that enable the mission of
  maneuver units to succeed. At this level, fund the force tasks encompass immediate receipt and distribution
  of funding. See Chapter 2, Fund the Force, for more information.
  BANKING AND DISBURSING
  1-16. Banking support is the provision of cash, non-cash and E-commerce mechanisms necessary to
  support the theater procurement process and host nation banking infrastructure. Banking support
  major tasks include: (1) Identifying partner agencies and documenting economic analysis of support host
  country (2) Establishing theater Army Banking Policy & Procedures (3) Coordinating for E-commerce &
  supporting technology (4) Opening and maintaining limited depositary account (LDA) and (5)
  Coordinating for Host Nation Banking capability.