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  current and future enemies and adversaries, the BCT commander can exploit possibilities to disrupt the
  enemy and then rapidly dislocate,isolate,disintegrate,and destroy enemy forces.
  NETWORKS
  3-10. The BCT commander and staff must determine an enemy’s strategies, objectives, and the multiple
  dimensions,(physical,psychological,informational,and political) in which the enemy operates to defeat the
  enemy. The BCT identifies and depicts networks (such as criminal, financial, terrorist, security forces) as
  friendly, enemy, or neutral based on how they affect the mission. The BCT supports friendly networks,
  influences neutral networks, and disrupts, neutralizes, or defeats enemy networks. Network assessment is
  continuous and collaborative,integrating unified action partners whenever possible. Unified action partners
  supply much of the information needed for an accurate assessment. At the tactical level, units develop an
  understanding of various networks through reconnaissance, intelligence operations, and surveillance (see
  chapter 5) in close contact with the enemy and civilian populations. Network assessment considerations
  include—
  (cid:122) Objectives and strategy.
  (cid:122) Key individuals,groups,nodes,and their roles within a network.
  (cid:122) Relationships between key individuals and networks.
  (cid:122) Means and methods of communicating.
  (cid:122) Resources that flow across, into, and out of networks (such as people, money, weapons, and
  narcotics).
  (cid:122) Network intersections where illicit networks connect to legitimate institutions and leaders.
  (cid:122) Network strengths and vulnerabilities.
  POTENTIAL THREAT GROUPS
  3-11. Complex operational environments may include joint transregional, all-domain, and multifunctional
  threats and conflicts, calling for Army operations across multiple domains, including air, land, maritime,
  space,and cyberspace. Threats include nation state militaries,insurgent organizations,transnational criminal
  organizations,and terrorist groups. These threat groups may align or partner with each otherbased on mutual
  goals, self-interest, convenience, required capabilities, and common interests. As a result, the BCT
  commander must prepare to defeat a complicated and often shifting array of enemies and threats.
  Understanding threat and enemy capabilities,as well as their political,economic,or ideological aims,is an
  essential element of seizing,retaining,and exploiting the initiative.
  STATES
  3-12. States are sovereign governments that control a defined geographic area. Although social movements
  and global real time communications reduce the relative power of some states, the state remains the entity
  that generates,sustains,and employs combat power. States have a number of advantages over organizations.
  These advantages include the recognition and support of other states,the authority to create laws governing
  the population and the authority to enforce laws through the control of institutions such as their standing
  armies and internal security forces, and the ability to raise money through taxation. Using their military
  forces, states have access to the institutions required to generate doctrinal, organizational, training, and
  materiel components of combined arms teams and their associated combat power. As a result, the BCT
  commander must understand a sovereign government’s combat capabilities to work with or fight against that
  sovereign government.
  NONSTATE ORGANIZATIONS
  3-13. Nonstate organizations are groups that operate within states, but who act outside of the system to
  support or achieve their own political goals. Such groups may vary in size and organizational structure,
  changing over time and environments. Frequently, organizations consist of a predominant tribal, ethnic,
  national,or religious group,but there are corporate,criminal,and transnational organizations as well. Threat
  organizations may vary in capabilities and in the goals, they pursue. Often enemies and adversaries seek