text: Chapter 4
  * Enemy fire support assets.
  * Moving enemy forces not yet in contact, such as follow-on forces and reserves.
  4-42. Attack priorities vary with mission variables. Attack rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft can engage enemy
  forces throughout the depth of an assigned area (if the suppression of enemy air defenses can reduce the risk
  to aircraft to an acceptable degree).
  4-43. The techniques units employ to fix enemy forces when both forces are moving differ from those
  employed when enemy forces are stationary during a meeting engagement. In both situations, when the
  security force cannot overrun enemy forces by conducting a hasty frontal attack, units deploy a portion of
  their main body. When this occurs, the unit transitions to an attack and is no longer conducting a movement
  to contact.
  Finish the Enemy
  4-44. If possible, friendly security forces overwhelm enemy security forces by executing a frontal attack to
  make contact with the enemy main body. If this is not possible, friendly security forces fix enemy security
  forces and the main body conducts a penetration or envelopment of the enemy security forces. This makes
  the main body the main effort of the movement to contact and is a key reason why units ensure that their
  main bodies avoid enemy engagement until a time and place of their choosing. They maneuver their main
  bodies at a tempo the enemy force cannot match. They do this to overwhelm the enemy before it can react
  effectively or reinforce. Units attempt to defeat the enemy security force in detail while still maintaining the
  momentum of the advance, until the unit makes contact with the enemy main body.
  4-45. If the main body initiates a frontal attack, it deploys rapidly to the vicinity of the line of contact.
  Commanders of maneuvering units coordinate forward passage through friendly forces in contact as required.
  The intent is to deliver the assault before the enemy force can deploy or reinforce its engaged forces.
  Commanders may order an attack from a march column. They can also wait to attack until they can deploy
  forward the bulk of their main body. They avoid piecemeal commitment, except when rapid action is
  essential, their units have combat superiority and can maintain that superiority throughout their attacks, or
  when the terrain forces that COA.
  4-46. Units attempting an envelopment focus on attacking the enemy force’s flanks and rear before the
  enemy force can prepare to counter these actions. They use security forces to fix enemy forces while their
  main bodies maneuver to look for an assailable flank. Alternatively, they use their main body to fix the enemy
  force while their reserve finds an assailable flank.
  4-47. If the enemy force is not rapidly defeated, commanders have three options: bypass, transition to a
  deliberate attack, or conduct a defense. In all cases, they make every effort to retain the initiative by
  conducting violent and resolute attacks and preventing enemy forces from countering them. Simultaneously,
  units maintain momentum by synchronizing the actions of friendly maneuver, functional and multifunctional
  support, and sustainment elements.
  Follow Through
  4-48. After a successful attack, friendly forces either continue movement to their final objective or they
  conduct a hasty defense to consolidate and reorganize before continuing. If the location of the enemy main
  body is still unclear and friendly forces have not reached their limit of advance, the unit resumes their
  movement to contact.
  VARIATIONS FOR A MOVEMENT TO CONTACT
  4-49. Movement to contact has two variations: search and attack and cordon and search. Paragraphs 4-50
  through 4-82 further discuss these variations.
  SEARCH AND ATTACK
  4-50. Search and attack is a variation of a movement to contact where a friendly force conducts
  coordinated attacks to defeat a distributed enemy force. Units employ this variation of a movement to