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  • Exploit all available reconnaissance, intelligence, surveillance, and
  target acquisition (RISTA) assets.
  • Consider airspace management and the use of all fire support (lethal
  and nonlethal) means.
  • Use the lowest echelon capable of furnishing effective support.
  • Avoid unnecessary duplication of effort.
  • Use the most effective means to accomplish the mission.
  • Provide rapid and effective coordination.
  • Provide for flexibility of employment.
  • Provide for safeguarding and survivability of OPFOR fire support assets.
  • Attempt to achieve surprise when possible.
  • Deliver highly accurate and effective fire.
  SYSTEMS WARFARE
  7-5. The foundation of OPFOR planning is the systems warfare approach to
  combat. Thus, the OPFOR analyzes its own combat system and how it can use
  the combined effects of this “system of systems” to degrade or destroy the en-
  emy’s combat system. In systems warfare, the subsystems or components of a
  combat system are targeted and destroyed individually. Once a favorable com-
  bat situation has developed, the targeted enemy subsystem is quickly destroyed
  in high-intensity operations, thus making the enemy’s overall combat system
  vulnerable to destruction or at least degrading its effectiveness. (See Systems
  Warfare in Chapter 1 for further information.)
  7-6. Within the systems warfare approach, the OPFOR employs a fire sup-
  port concept centered on a phased-cycle of finding a critical component of the
  enemy combat system and determining its location with RISTA assets;
  engaging it with precision fires, maneuver, or other means; and recovering to
  support the fight against another part of the enemy force. The primary
  reason for attacking an enemy with fires is to degrade or destroy one or more
  key components of the enemy’s combat system and/or to create favorable
  conditions for degrading or destroying other parts of his combat system.
  TECHNIQUES TO EXPLOIT ENEMY VULNERABILITIES
  7-7. The OPFOR seeks to avoid enemy strengths and exploit his vulnerabilities.
  In conflicts with extraregional powers, the OPFOR typically would be operat-
  ing from relative strategic weakness. Therefore, it seeks to operationally
  outmaneuver, overwhelm, and outpace the enemy. It also seeks to deny him
  any sanctuary on the battlefield, as well as in the local theater or in his
  strategic depth. (See Strategic Context later in this chapter.)
  7-8. The OPFOR will also leverage the effects of its available fire support
  means by integrating them into an integrated fires command (IFC) in or-
  ganizations down to division or division tactical group (DTG) level. The
  IFC (described in detail in Chapter 2) synchronizes and focuses the efforts
  of RISTA and fire to destroy key enemy formations or systemsor key
  components of an enemy combat system. Destroying such targets can not