text: FM 7-100.1________________________________________________________________________________
  COMMAND POST SECURITY
  2-202. Security of CPs is important, and the OPFOR takes a number of
  measures to ensure it. CPs are a high priority for air defense protection. Ideally,
  main CPs also locate near reserve forces to gain protection from ground at-
  tack. Nevertheless, circumstances often dictate that they provide for their
  own local defense. Engineers normally dig in and camouflage key elements.
  2-203. Good camouflage, the remoting of communications facilities, and the
  deployment of alternate CPs make most of the C2 structure fairly survivable.
  Nevertheless, one of the most important elements, the forward CP, often re-
  mains vulnerable. It forms a distinctive, if small, grouping, well within en-
  emy artillery range, even at OSC level. The OPFOR therefore typically pro-
  vides key CPs with sufficient engineer and combat arms support to protect
  them from enemy artillery or special operations raids.
  COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
  2-204. The OPFOR commander’s C2 requirements are dictated generally by
  the doctrine, tactics, procedures, and operational responsibilities applicable
  to commanders at higher echelons. Battlefield dispersion, mobility, and in-
  creasing firepower under conventional or WMD conditions require reliable,
  flexible, and secure command and control.
  2-205. Expanding C2 requirements include the need for
  • High mobility of combat headquarters and subordinate units.
  • Rapid collection, analysis, and dissemination of information as the ba-
  sis for planning and decision making.
  • Maintaining effective control of forces operating in a hostile IW envi-
  ronment.
  Supporting communications systems, which are the principal means of C2,
  must have a degree of mobility, reliability, flexibility, security, and surviv-
  ability comparable to the C2 elements being supported.
  2-206. Modern warfare has resulted in a shift away from large formations
  arrayed against one another in a linear fashion, to maneuver warfare con-
  ducted across large areas with more lethal, yet smaller, combat forces. C2 must
  provide the reliable, long-range communications links necessary to control
  forces deployed over greater distances. In order to move with the maneuver
  forces, the communications systems must be highly mobile.
  COMMUNICATIONS
  2-207. The chief characteristics of communications supporting the C2 struc-
  ture are security, survivability, and flexibility. In the OPFOR view, centrali-
  zation of operational planning is a prerequisite to achieving the flexibility re-
  quired to ensure timely concentration of forces and fires. Redundancy in
  equipment, as well as communications links and CPs, is the primary means
  of ensuring the control structure’s security and survivability.
  2-208. The organization of communications to meet operational requirements
  is the responsibility of the commander at each level. Prior to combat, the OSC
  chief of communications, under the personal direction of the intelligence officer,