text: Chapter 3
  the geographic combatant command and theater army. Using mission partner environment during combined
  exercises ensures multinational mission partners can share information with these systems during operations.
  CONSOLIDATING GAINS
  3-36. Security cooperation helps set the theater for future geographic combatant command and theater army
  actions. Security cooperation activities address interoperability, validate standard operating procedures, and
  exercise communications systems to prepare the multinational force to rapidly respond to crises or transition
  to operations to prevent. Signal forces and staffs consolidate gains in signal support during operations to
  shape by adjusting the scheme of signal support in operation plans to address changing communications
  requirements.
  SECTION II – OPERATIONS TO PREVENT
  3-37. The purpose of operations to prevent is to deter adversary actions contrary to U.S. interests. They are
  typically conducted in response to activities that threaten unified action partners and require the deployment
  or repositioning of credible forces in a theater to demonstrate the willingness to fight if deterrence fails (FM
  3-0).
  OVERVIEW OF ARMY OPERATIONS TO PREVENT
  3-38. Prevent activities enable the joint force to gain positions of relative advantage prior to future combat
  operations. Operations to prevent are characterized by actions to protect friendly forces and indicate the intent
  to execute subsequent phases of a planned operation (FM 3-0). Army forces perform the following major
  activities during operations to prevent:
  * Execute flexible deterrent options and flexible response options.
  * Set the theater.
  * Tailor Army forces.
  * Project the force.
  3-39. Signal support in operations to prevent requires signal leaders and organizations to quickly plan
  support, engineer network solutions, and deploy personnel and equipment in support of expeditionary Army
  forces. Signal planners and units tailor communications packages to minimize the communications footprint
  while providing robust communications capabilities to the deploying force. Signal capabilities support en
  route services, echeloned command posts, and ad hoc requirements.
  3-40. During operations to prevent, the theater army G-6, the SC(T) commander, and theater tactical signal
  brigade commander contribute to joint command and control by establishing, maintaining, and securing the
  network architecture to support joint and Army forces operating in theater.
  3-41. The theater portion of the DODIN-A provides network and information system availability,
  information protection, and information delivery across the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Signal
  units provide the theater army with trained and ready signal Soldiers to support Army operations to prevent
  and rapidly transition to combat operations, if required.
  RISKS TO SIGNAL SUPPORT
  3-42. During operations to prevent, peer threats shift resources to information warfare and preclusion. Threat
  supporting efforts include systems warfare and sanctuary. Threat forces will consider four key areas when
  designing operations to mitigate U.S. deterrence efforts. They include—
  * Attempts to reduce the perceived risk to threat forces.
  * Limited attacks to expose friendly vulnerabilities.
  * Deception operations to conceal the threat’s true intentions.
  * Attempts to slow and disrupt deployment to limit U.S. force buildup.