text: Generating and Applying Combat Power
  THE SUSTAINMENTWARFIGHTING FUNCTION
  The sustainment warfighting functionis the related tasks and system that provide support and services
  to ensure freedom of action, extended operational reach, and prolong endurance (ADP 3-0). Sustainment
  employs capabilities from all domains and enables operations through each domain. Sustainment determines
  the limits of depth and endurance during operations. Sustainment demands joint and strategic integration,
  and it should be meticulously coordinated across echelons to ensure continuity of operations and that
  resources reach the point of employment.
  Sustainment employs an integrated network of information systems linking sustainment to operations.
  As a result, commanders at all levels see an operational environment, anticipate requirements in time and
  space, understand what is needed, track anddeliver what is requested, and make timely decisions to ensure
  responsive sustainment. Because the situation is always changing, sustainment requires leaders capable of
  improvisation. Because sustainment operations are often vulnerable to enemy attacks, sustainment
  survivability depends on active and passive measures and maneuver forces for protection. (See ADP 4-0and
  FM 4-0for more information on sustainment.)
  THE PROTECTIONWARFIGHTING FUNCTION
  The protection warfighting function is the related tasks, systems, and methods that prevent or
  mitigate detection, threat effects, and hazards to preserve combat power and enable freedom of action.
  Protection encompasses everything that makes Army forces hard to detect and destroy. Protection requires
  commanders and staffs to understand threats and hazards throughout the operational environment, prioritize
  their requirements, and commit capabilities and resources according totheir priorities. Commanders balance
  their protection efforts with the need for tempo and resourcing the main effort. They may assume risk in
  operations or areas that may be vulnerable, but that are considered low enemy priorities for targeting or
  attack. Commanders account for threats from space, cyberspace, and outsidetheir assigned area of operations
  (AO) as they develop protection measures. Protection results from many factors, including operations
  security, dispersion, deception, survivability measures, and the way forces conduct operations. Planning,
  preparing, executing, and assessing protection is a continuous and enduring activity. Defending networks,
  data, and systems; implementing operations security; and conducting security operations contribute to
  information advantages by protecting friendly information. Prioritization of protection capabilities is
  situationally dependent and resourceinformed. (See ADP 3-37for additional information on protection.)
  COMBAT POWER
  Combat poweris the total means of destructive and disruptive force that a military unit/formation can
  apply against an enemy at a given time (JP 3-0). It is the ability to fight. The complementary and reinforcing
  effects that result from synchronized operations yield a powerful blow that overwhelms enemy forces and
  creates friendly momentum. Army forces deliver that blow through a combination of five dynamics. The
  dynamics of combat power are—
  (cid:122) Leadership.
  (cid:122) Firepower.
  (cid:122) Information.
  (cid:122) Mobility.
  (cid:122) Survivability.
  All warfighting functions contribute to generating and applying combat power. Well sustained units
  able to move and maneuver bring combat power to bear against the opponent. Joint and Army indirect fires
  complement and reinforce organic firepower in maneuver units. Survivability is a function of protection
  tasks, the protection inherent to Army platforms, and schemes of maneuver that focus friendly strengths
  against enemy weaknesses. Intelligence determines how and where to best apply combat power against
  enemy weaknesses. C2enables leadership, the most important qualitative aspect of combat power.