text: Chapter 2
  Additionally, the enemy conducts propaganda and disinformation to discredit the BCT and to generate
  popular opposition to U.S. and coalition efforts. The use of proxy forces and contracted forces by the enemy
  to conduct reconnaissance and counterreconnaissance has become a more common tactic in an effort to
  preserve combat power and avoid casualties amongst regular forces. The enemy can integrate proxy forces
  and contracted forces easily into a civilian population to either influence the local populous or remain
  concealed to gain and maintain contact with an opposing force.
  The enemy augments the tactical capabilities of combined arms teams with inexpensive
  countermeasures (such as land mines and fire and smoke as a weapon system) to impede U.S. forces. The
  enemy seeks to leverage commercial and military technologies for precision strike capability, satellite
  imagery, forward-looking infrared, and electromagnetic warfare systems or platforms. The enemy looks to
  conduct aggressive counterreconnaissance operations to preserve combat power and deny a BCT’s ability to
  collect information and make timely decisions.
  UNDERSTAND BEING MATCHED
  The force structure of peer and near peer threat reconnaissance forces is almost identical to
  reconnaissance forces within a BCT. BCT commanders and staffs should understand that the BCT’s
  reconnaissance and security efforts are matched in the disruption zone of the battlefield with similar
  capabilities if not superior capabilities. Any BCT reconnaissance and security force makes contact early with
  the enemy through multiple forms of contact. BCT commanders and staffs must anticipate threat tactics in
  order to augment reconnaissance and security forces with enablers that allow the BCT to succeed in
  maintaining an advantage over enemy forces.
  Regular, irregular, and nontraditional forces present formidable tactical challenges to BCTs through
  area denial, artillery munitions, land mines, and antiaircraft systems. The enemy emphasizes deception,
  cover, infiltration techniques, mobility, and most importantly, depth for its defense and operations. Together,
  regular, irregular, and nontraditional forces on the current and future battlefield employ significant combined
  arms capabilities that seek to disrupt BCT operations and dislocate BCT combined arms capabilities. The
  enemy is adept at employing electronic warfare and cyberspace capabilities to identify and target friendly
  reconnaissance elements for high volumes of fires.
  In addition, enemies are proficient at establishing and maintaining communications as well as
  disrupting U.S. forces’ automated command and control systems and combined-arms capabilities through
  combinations of Global Positioning System jamming, cyberspace attacks, data pirating, and potential satellite
  neutralization. The use of these anti-access and area denial capabilities and techniques are to prevent advance
  and freedom of action for allied units terrestrially, as well as creating a denied, degraded, and disrupted
  space-operating environment.