text: Foreword
  Engineer units, Soldiers, and Department of the Army Civilians continue to support ongoing contingency
  operations, but these activities only represent a small portion of what we do for the nation. The United States
  (U.S.) Army Engineer Regiment provides continuous support to homeland defense, disaster response, ongoing
  military operations, and the dedicated work by our United States Army Corps of Engineers. As battlefields are
  expanding across all domains and decision cycles continue to compress, we have an opportunity to refocus our
  training, modernization, and leader development on future peer and near-peer threats to ensure that U.S. forces
  can gain strategic positional advantage and freedom of movement.
  With the focus on large-scale ground combat operations provided by the release of the 2017 FM 3-0, all engineers
  must be ready for a fight that is incredibly fast-paced, complex, and lethal. Our resources, training, and capability
  development must evolve to incorporate the critical engineer tasks required during shape, prevent, large-scale
  ground combat, and consolidation of gains. With a decrease in forward-stationed forces, critical tasks include
  setting the theater, improving lines of communications, providing geospatial products, and ensuring freedom of
  movement and maneuver for any offensive or defensive mission on any type of terrain.
  FM 3-34 provides the foundational doctrine for all engineers to meet the challenges of this paradigm. All
  engineers must understand our regiment’s capabilities, be able to integrate those capabilities into the mission, and
  recommend how to best mass our engineer effects. FM 3-0 incorporated enabler integration across warfighting
  functions and domains at division, corps and field army levels, and now FM 3-34 subsumes ATP 3-34.23 and
  incorporates engineer tasks planned and executed by these larger echelons. Command and support relationships
  must be second nature to ensure that engineer units are integrated into the force—from the Sappers in the breach
  to forward engineer support teams who may help a small town repair infrastructure.
  To accomplish our missions, we must be able to describe our capabilities to maneuver commanders during the
  planning process and during mission transitions to contribute effectively to plans of actions that support the
  commander’s intent. This integration ensures that our capabilities are in the right place at the right time. Engineer
  leaders must take on tough, realistic and repetitive training to build readiness. Through the Army’s reform and
  modernization efforts, engineers will validate their standard operating procedures based on varying environments
  and conditions. We must share, update, and incorporate our lessons learned to operate, fight and win for the next
  battle.
  I am proud of what we do every day. ESSAYONS…We Will Succeed!
  MARK C. QUANDER
  BRIGADIER GENERAL,
  UNITED STATES ARMY
  98TH COMMANDANT
  This publication is available at the Army Publishing Directorate
  site (https://armypubs.army.mil) and the Central Army Registry