text: Chapter 3
  ARMY STRATEGIC ROLES
  3-5. The Army accomplishes its mission by supporting the joint force with unified land operations, thus
  fulfilling the four strategic roles of—
  * Shape OEs.
  * Prevent conflict.
  * Prevail in large-scale ground combat.
  * Consolidate gains.
  3-6. CA forces engage and leverage civil networks (people, organizations, and capabilities) to produce
  desired effects and defeat threats in the civil component. These support the strategic objective of establishing
  a secure and stable OE that is consistent with U.S. interests. CA forces support the Army’s strategic roles by
  performing four core competencies of TG, CNDE, CKI, and CMI in support of unified land operations as
  executed through the elements of decisive action.
  3-7. CA supports the strategic roles by—
  * Conducting TG to improve and/or implement governance. This supports military objectives across
  the competition continuum—such as interagency-led stabilization efforts, or DOD-led endeavors in
  post-conflict or post-crisis environments. TG conducted by CA forces supports the whole of
  government approach as well as U.S. diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments
  of national power abroad through execution of governance tasks mandated by U.S. policy and
  international law. TG supports military objectives across the competition continuum.
  * Providing commanders with options to find, disrupt, and defeat threats in the civil component;
  extending command and control; enabling freedom of movement and maneuver; and leveraging
  available resources in the civil component. This is accomplished by engaging civil networks to
  build friendly networks, influence neutral networks, classify unknown networks, and degrade
  threat networks.
  * Integrating civil knowledge gained through CNDE, CR, and other information collection methods
  to enhance situational understanding for the supported commander, provide inputs to operations
  and targeting processes, and provide detailed mission planning to units at all echelons.
  * Conducting CMI to establish, maintain, influence, or leverage relations between military forces,
  partners, IPI, and other non-military entities. This is done by directly supporting the achievement
  of objectives related to the reestablishment or maintenance of stability within a region or HN.
  CMI is essential to effective partnerships between U.S. forces, HNs and partner nations, unified
  action partners, multinational forces, NGOs, international organizations, the interagency, and the
  private sector. CMI enables unified action and supports unity of effort based on the commander’s
  mission goals.
  SHAPE
  3-8. Shaping the OE helps set the conditions for successful theater operations. Shaping operations are
  designed to dissuade or deter adversaries, assure friends, and set conditions for contingency plans. CA forces
  support the shaping activities of the commander through conducting CAO, enabling unified action, and
  providing an added stabilizing effect on the OE. Shaping activities precede operation order activation and
  continue through and after an operation order is terminated, with the intent of enhancing international
  legitimacy and gaining multinational cooperation. CAO, through its support of the elements of decisive
  action, enable—
  * Building civil networks through CNDE.
  * Conducting preparation of the environment.
  * Providing U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access.
  * Mitigating conditions that could lead to a crisis.
  * Setting the conditions for stability through TG.
  * Setting the conditions for civil security through TG, CMI, and CNDE.
  * Increasing governance capacity and capability through SCA.