text: Chapter 2
  Air and Missile Defense Operations Process
  This chapter addresses the planning, preparing, executing, and assessing phases of the
  Army’s operations process. These are presented in terms of force operations and
  engagement operations. General aspects and applications of both follow. ADA
  echelon-specific discussions of force and engagement operations are presented in
  chapters 5 through 10.
  AMD OPERATIONS FRAMEWORK
  2-1. The Army's framework for exercising C2 is the operations process - the major C2 activities performed
  during operations: planning, preparing, executing, and continuously assessing the operation (ADP 5-0).
  Integral to AMD C2 are force operations and engagement operations. Force operations set the conditions for
  successful and sustained engagement operations. They include all actions needed to conduct parallel and
  collaborative planning, coordination, and integration with Army, joint, and multinational forces. Engagement
  operations constitute the process of engaging air and missile threats. Engagement operations include
  establishing an air picture, determining the classification and identification of all tracks, evaluating the threat
  these tracks pose to the defended assets, and exercising engagement control over subordinate units.
  Categorization as force operations or engagement operations provides a framework to assist in
  defining/establishing responsibilities and conducting activities. However, not all activities or tasks are clearly
  distinguishable as force or engagement operations; some may span both categories depending upon the phase
  of operation or METT-TC considerations.
  2-2. Figure 2-1 on page 2-2 depicts the planning and execution focus of the ADA echelons; the two curves
  represent the traditional activity level of the ADA echelons as they carry-out the AMD fight. Force operations
  and engagement operations for each ADA echelon are described in greater detail in its respective chapter,
  beginning with chapter 5.