text: Chapter 4
  protection plans to reduce or mask the electromagnetic signature of the unit’s command posts. Refer to FM
  3-12, ATP 6-02.53, and ATP 6-02.70 for more information about electronic protection tasks.
  SIGNAL SUPPORT
  4-7. Army communications capabilities can support any joint or multinational combined arms team. Signal
  elements provide a wide variety of fixed and tactical communications capabilities to support a theater of
  operations.
  4-8. Large-scale combat operations are lethal and complex. The full range of strategic to tactical signal
  capabilities support the combination of offense, defense, and stability tasks to seize, retain, and exploit the
  initiative, consolidate gains, win, and return to shaping operations. Large-scale combat operations require
  adaptable and agile communications support able to meet the specific mission requirements. Commanders
  can tailor employment of their communications capabilities to support their mission requirements,
  considering terrain, electromagnetic spectrum and satellite availability, and speed of displacement.
  SIGNAL SUPPORT TO STABILITY TASKS
  4-9. Stability tasks during large-scale combat operations include restoring essential services and population
  control in areas controlled by friendly forces. Generally, the responsibility for providing for the needs of the
  civilian population rests with the host-nation government or designated civil authorities, agencies, and
  organizations. Army forces perform the minimal essential stability tasks to provide security, food, water,
  shelter, and medical treatment when there is no legitimate civil authority or capability present. Army signal
  support may include emergency communications restoral to support stability tasks until host-nation civilian
  capabilities can be restored.
  4-10. Functional support brigades, such as military police, engineers, and medical brigades, require
  communications augmentation when they support large-scale combat operations. Divisions also require
  network support for company- and platoon-level units performing stability missions. Elements of the
  expeditionary signal battalion support these requirements.
  SIGNAL SUPPORT IN THE CORPS AND DIVISION SUPPORT AND CONSOLIDATION AREAS
  4-11. A maneuver enhancement brigade typically controls and defends the corps or division support area. A
  brigade combat team controls and defends the consolidation area. Elements of the expeditionary signal
  battalion augment the maneuver enhancement brigade and brigade combat team’s organic communications
  capabilities to establish the base communications network.
  4-12. Perimeter defense forces, quick reaction forces, and roving guards primarily use single-channel radios
  for communications support. Units’ organic and augmenting network capabilities support command posts for
  base security and defense. If base camps become enduring requirements, the base network migrates to a more
  permanent or fixed infrastructure. Fixed infrastructure frees tactical signal elements to support maneuver
  tasks.
  SIGNAL SUPPORT TO TACTICAL ENABLING TASKS
  4-13. Commanders direct tactical enabling tasks to support the performance of all offensive, defensive, and
  stability tasks. Commanders usually employ tactical enabling tasks as part of shaping operations or
  supporting efforts. The tactical enabling tasks are—
  * Reconnaissance.
  * Security.
  * Troop movement.
  * Relief in place.
  * Passage of lines.
  * Encirclement operations.
  * Mobility and counter-mobility operations.