text: Foundations of Counterinsurgency
  3-98. Host nation security force advisor teams conduct operations to train HN military individuals
  and units in tactical employment, sustainment and integration of land, air, and maritime skills; provide
  advice and assistance to military leaders; and provide training on tactics, techniques, and procedures. These
  teams can be resourced by the BCT or battalion, or provided by DA. Their size and capability varies on the
  size of the HN security force being advised. (For more information, see Chapter 8.)
  3-99. Base commanders and base defense commanders are typically internally resourced personnel
  and units of the brigade, battalion, and company level who command and control the base and supervise
  the defense of the base. (For more information, see Chapter 6.)
  3-100. Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) support provides the capability to neutralize domestic
  of foreign conventional explosive hazards, which include unexploded ordnance (UXO), booby traps,
  improvised explosive devices (IEDs), captured enemy ammunition, and bulk explosive. EOD units detect,
  mark, identify, render safe, and dispose of explosive hazards. Also, EOD specialists work with intelligence
  personnel to conduct explosive forensics to help identify the makers of the devices, as well as their ever
  evolving methods of construction, placement, concealment, and detonation.
  3-101. Human intelligence collection teams (HCTs) are teams with trained HUMINT collectors that
  collect information for people and their associated documents and media sources to identify elements,
  intentions, capability, strength, disposition, tactics, and equipment. The team uses human sources as tools
  and a variety of collection methods to satisfy the commander’s intelligence requirements.
  They can conduct source operations and interrogate detainees.
  3-102. A PSYOP team is a team that reinforces the effects of tactical and nontactical operations, as well
  as discrediting and demoralizing the insurgency. Their actions enhance the probability of accomplishing
  the unit’s mission.
  3-103. A civil affairs team (CAT) is a team that helps a unit establish, maintain, influence, or exploit
  relations between the unit and civilian organizations, governments, authorities, and populace in an area
  of operations. Civil affairs core tasks include populace and resource control (PRC), foreign humanitarian
  assistance, civil information management, nation assistance, and support to civil administration.
  3-104. Company operations teams sometimes referred to as company intelligence support teams are a
  group of two to six individuals at the company level who enhance the company commanders’ situational
  awareness of their area of operations by producing intelligence at the company level. They collect
  and analyze patrol reports, human intelligence reports, and battalion intelligence reports. As a result, they
  are able to conduct link analysis, conduct pattern analysis, create target folders, and enemy situation
  templates.
  3-105. Site exploitations teams are teams at the company or battalion level that execute systematic
  actions with the appropriate equipment, to ensure that personnel, document, electronic data, and other
  material at any site are identified, evaluated, collected, and protected to gather information to be developed
  into intelligence and facilitate future operations. They may collect biometric, physical, digital, and spoken
  data. (See also Chapter 5 of this manual or CALL product 07-26.)
  Section IV—CLEAR-HOLD-BUILD OPERATIONS
  A clear-hold-build operation is a full spectrum operation that combines offense (finding and eliminating the
  insurgent), defense (protecting the local populace) and stability (rebuilding the infrastructure, increasing the
  legitimacy of the local government and bringing the rule of law to the area) operations. Each phase—clear,
  hold, and build—combines offensive, defensive, and stability operations in varying degrees. In the clear phase,
  offensive operations usually dominate; in the hold phase, defensive operations are emphasized; and in the hold
  phase stability operations are preeminent. It is usually a relatively long-term operation and requires the
  commitment of a large number of forces. Figure 3-5 shows the typical combination of offense, defense
  and stability operations.