text: Army Tactics
  Figure 1-2. Tactical framework
  Find the Enemy
  1-33. Units find the enemy through aggressive information collection activities that provide commanders
  with timely, detailed, and accurate intelligence. Once a unit gains contact with the enemy they fight to
  maintain contact unless directed otherwise by their higher headquarters. Information collection activities
  contribute to improving situational understanding regarding the enemy and terrain. Units use as many
  capabilities as possible when performing information collection. Finding every enemy formation is likely
  impractical within the time and assets available. Therefore, information collection focuses on reducing those
  uncertainties within the assigned area that directly impact mission accomplishment.
  1-34. Units use human and technical means to confirm suspected locations of enemy formations and
  capabilities. When successful, information collection enables commanders to use combined arms actions to
  fix and destroy enemy formations and shape the battlefield. If information collection efforts are unsuccessful,
  friendly forces conduct a movement to contact to find the enemy. Once the location of the enemy is known,
  friendly forces conduct actions on contact and maintain contact with the enemy.
  Fix the Enemy
  1-35. Fixing the enemy limits their maneuver options and prevents them from repositioning, reinforcing, or
  reorganizing. Fixing the enemy requires using combined arms and allows friendly forces to mass combat
  power against a relatively static enemy. Units seek to fix enemy forces with the minimum amount of combat
  power since fixing an enemy is typically a supporting effort.
  1-36. Units at all echelons use all capabilities at their disposal to gain and maintain contact with the enemy
  and use combined arms to fix the enemy. Units can also isolate the enemy by severing lines of
  communications to fix enemy forces and prevent reinforcement. Nearly every type of offensive or defensive