text: Security Operations
  * Augmentation of security forces.
  * Special requirements or constraints.
  * Fires planning.
  * Integration of ground and Army aviation.
  * Engineer planning
  * Sustainment.
  * Positioning of command posts and combat trains.
  * Reporting.
  These considerations are in addition to the planning considerations applicable to other types of operations
  discussed in this publication.
  SECURITY FUNDAMENTALS
  13-12. Successful security operations depend on properly applying the five fundamentals:
  * Provide early and accurate warning.
  * Provide reaction time and maneuver space.
  * Orient of the protected force, area, or facility to be secured.
  * Perform continuous reconnaissance.
  * Maintain enemy contact.
  Provide Early and Accurate Warning
  13-13. The security force provides early warning by detecting enemy forces quickly and reporting
  information accurately to the main body. The security force operates at varying distances from the main body
  based on the mission variables. At a minimum, it operates far enough from the main body to prevent enemy
  ground forces from observing or engaging the main body with direct fires. The earlier the security force
  detects enemy forces, the more time the main body has to assess the changing situation and react.
  Provide Reaction Time and Maneuver Space
  13-14. Each security force provides its main body with enough reaction time and maneuver space to respond
  effectively to likely enemy actions by operating at a distance from the main body and by offering resistance
  to approaching enemy forces. Units determine the amount of time and space required to respond to
  information provided by their IPB process and the time their main bodies require to react to enemy COAs.
  Security forces operating at a distance from their main bodies offer more time and space to their main bodies
  to react to enemy forces. Each security force attempts to hinder an enemy force’s advance by acting within
  its capabilities and mission constraints.
  Orient on the Force, Area, of Facility to be Secured
  13-15. Security forces focus all their actions on protecting and providing early warning to force, area, or
  facility they are securing. They operate between the force, area, or facility and known or suspected enemy
  units. If the force they are securing moves, security forces move moves and orients on their movement.
  Security force units need to know the moving forces’ scheme of maneuver to keep their security force
  between these main bodies and approaching enemy forces. The value of terrain occupied by security forces
  hinges on the degree of resistance those security forces can provide to their respective main bodies from that
  terrain.
  Perform Continuous Reconnaissance
  13-16. Security forces aggressively and continuously seek out enemy forces and reconnoiter key terrain
  within their assigned areas. They perform area or zone reconnaissance to detect enemy movement or enemy
  preparations for action and to learn as much as possible about the terrain. In stability-focused operations,
  terrain information includes a larger focus on the civilian population. The ultimate goal of security forces is
  to determine the enemy force’s COA and assist their main bodies to counter it. Terrain information focuses