text: Foundations of Engineer Operations
  ENGINEER SUPPORT TO WARFIGHTING FUNCTIONS
  Unified land operations require the continuous generation and application of combat power, often for
  protracted periods. Combat power is the total means of destructive, constructive, and information capabilities
  that a military unit and formation can apply at a given time (ADP 3-0). Army forces (ARFOR) generate
  combat power by converting potential into effective action. (See ADP 3-0 for additional information on
  warfighting functions.) There are eight elements of combat power—leadership, information, C2, movement
  and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment, and protection. Leadership and information also multiply the
  effects of the other six elements of combat power—C2, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires,
  sustainment, and protection. These six elements of combat power are collectively described as the
  warfighting functions. In unified land operations, ARFOR combine the elements of combat power to defeat
  the enemy and master each situation.
  The engineer disciplines are well-suited to provide engineer support for special operations—from an
  advisory role to augmentation support. Engineering capabilities are scalable and can be tailored to provide
  horizontal and vertical construction capabilities to improve austere conditions. Because special operations
  forces tend to deploy into smaller formations, engineers provide support through the supervision of HN
  contractors and laborers.
  Engineer support contributes significant combat power (lethal and nonlethal) to unified land
  operations. To effectively support the combined arms team, engineering capabilities are organized by the
  engineer disciplines and synchronized in the application through the warfighting functions. These
  warfighting functions also provide the framework for engineer tasks in the Army universal task list.
  Every unit, regardless of type, generates combat power and contributes to the operation. A variety of
  engineering capabilities and unit types are available to contribute to combat power. Engineer disciplines are
  each generally aligned in support of specific warfighting functions, although they have impact in and across
  the others. Figure 2-1, page 2-10, depicts these primary support relationships. For example—
  * Survivability support may be provided linkages to the fires and protection warfighting functions.
  * Combat engineering is aligned primarily with the movement and maneuver and protection
  warfighting functions.
  * General engineering aligns with the sustainment warfighting function and has a secondary
  functional relationship with the protection warfighting functions.
  * Geospatial engineering is primarily aligned with the C2 warfighting function, but it also serves as
  a direct liaison with the intelligence warfighting function and as a secondary functional
  relationship to the remaining warfighting functions.