text: Chapter 1
  * Provide for rapid and continuous coordination.
  * Provide for flexibility.
  * Use fire support coordination measures.
  1-141. During execution, fire supporters use the principles of fire support execution to anticipate the
  dynamics of combat operations, maintain situational awareness of the operational environment, and leverage
  interoperable fire support command and control systems and attack and delivery capabilities. The fire support
  execution principles include––
  * Adequate fire support for the committed units.
  * Weight to the main effort.
  * Immediately available fire support for the commander to influence the operation.
  * Facilitate future operations.
  * Maximize feasible centralized control.
  * Never place artillery in reserve.
  1-142. Units emphasize accomplishing simple and rapidly integrated fire support plans using quick-fire
  planning techniques and SOPs to focus fires on seizing the initiative. They integrate their fire assets as far
  forward as possible in their movement formations to facilitate the early emplacement of those assets. One
  example of this integration is the use of an unmanned aircraft system forward site team from a combat
  aviation brigade temporarily attached to a field artillery brigade to identify targets for destruction.
  1-143. Artillery, mortars, and some electromagnetic attack capabilities must occupy positions that are well
  forward and still within supporting range of the flanks of maneuver forces to provide responsive indirect and
  nonlethal fires. Units consider the effect that movement by echelon or battery has on the amount of fire
  support available. They should support the unit’s main effort with priority of fires.
  1-144. Responsiveness can be achieved by the following:
  * Training, especially digital sustainment training.
  * Streamlining the call for fire by using digital systems.
  * Planning fire support requirements in advance.
  * Establishing a permissive battlefield design, to include airspace.
  * Establishing permissive fire support coordination measures.
  * Conducting rehearsals.
  * Employing time on target.
  * Continually training observers in all aspects of fire support.
  * Limiting radio transmissions on fire networks to time-sensitive, mission-essential traffic only.
  1-145. The linking of Army forward observers, joint fires observers, and target acquisition assets to quick
  fire or exclusive networks also provides responsive fires. Responsive fire networks allow the lead observers
  to communicate directly with specific field artillery and mortar units. These kinds of communications
  arrangements enhance responsiveness through streamlined net structures and focused priorities.
  Communications planning should also include the need for communications networks for the clearing of
  targets for rotary- and fixed-wing attacks.
  1-146. Army units focus on integrating and synchronizing lethal and nonlethal activities. To preserve
  warfighting capabilities, and reduce the capabilities of potential adversaries, units utilize combinations of
  cyberspace, space operations, information operations, and electromagnetic warfare capabilities to seize,
  retain, and exploit the initiative. At the BCT level and above, units utilize cyberspace electromagnetic
  activities sections to assist in requesting cyberspace and electromagnetic warfare capabilities. These include
  offensive and defensive cyberspace, and Department of Defense information network operations,
  electromagnetic attack, electromagnetic protection, and electromagnetic warfare support. (For more
  information on cyberspace and electromagnetic warfare, see FM 3-12).