text: Offense
  SURPRISE
  6-3. As in the vignette above, the BCT commander achieves surprise by striking the enemy at a time or
  place the enemy does not expect or in a manner that the enemy is unprepared. The commander assesses the
  enemy’s intent to prevent the enemy from gaining situational understanding. The BCT identifies and avoids
  enemy strengths while attacking enemy weaknesses.
  6-4. The BCT strikes the enemy where and when the enemy least expects it through night attacks,
  infiltrations,or rapid insertion of airborne or air assault forces or in a manner the enemy is unprepared,for
  example in mass,leading with tanks,or attacking earlier or later than anticipated.Thus,forcing the enemy
  to deal with multiple forms of contact or to take advantage of their lack of unpreparednessfora specifictype
  ofcontactat a specific time and place.
  6-5. The BCT focuses assigned or attached reconnaissance and security forces and information collection
  efforts,and exploits echelon above brigade enablers,for example space and cyberspace capabilities,to gain
  accurate and timely information about the enemy. The BCT then capitalizes on this information by
  maneuvering forces to advantageous positions on the battlefield and by imposing lethal and nonlethal effects
  to undermine the integrity of the enemy’s tactical plan and thereby manufacture an advantage through the
  presentation of a tactical problem that the enemy is not prepared to,or limits the enemy’s ability to react.
  CONCENTRATION
  6-6. Concentration,as displayed in the vignette above,is themassing of overwhelming effects of combat
  power to achieve a single purpose. During the offense, the BCT commander must avoid set patterns or
  obvious movements that would indicate the timing or direction of the attack. The commander designates,
  sustains,and shifts the decisive operation or main effort as necessary. The BCT concentrates combat power
  against the enemy using company level enhanced digital communications and information systems.
  Simultaneously, the BCT synchronizes information from adjacent units, higher headquarters, and unified
  action partners. Synchronizing allows the BCT to gain an understanding of the terrain and threat forces in its
  area of operations and to concentrate assigned or attached and echelon above brigade information collection
  capabilities to enable the commander’s specific information requirements.
  6-7. The division commander assists the BCT commander to achieve concentration by task organizing
  additional resources from augmenting units or forces from within the division. The division commander,
  through the division artillery headquarters,may provide additional artillery support from the division artillery
  (when tasked organized) or a field artillery brigade. If lacking external resources, the division commander
  for example,may direct the organic field artillery battalion of the BCT in reserve to reinforce the fires of the
  field artillery battalion organic to the BCT conducting the main effort until the reserve is committed. Another
  example is to direct the division artillery target acquisition platoon radars (when tasked organized) to provide
  coverage while BCT radars are moving.
  TEMPO
  6-8. Commanders build the appropriate tempo to provide the necessary momentum for successful attacks
  that achieve the objective. Controlling or altering tempo,as demonstrated in the vignette,by the commander’s
  direct access to crucial joint intelligence, surveillance,and reconnaissance assets was essential to retaining
  the initiative and maintaining the rapid tempo of the operation. During the offense,rapid tempo focuses on
  key pieces of information and terrain at the tactical level. A rapid tempo entails a small number of tasks and
  allows attackers to penetrate barriers and defenses quickly to destroy enemy forces in-depth before they can
  react. A rapid tempo allows the BCT to deliver multiple blows in-depth from numerous directions to seize,
  retain, and exploit the initiative. Blows from multiple directions and multiple domains cause a multiple
  dimensional and domain dilemma for the enemy.
  6-9. Commanders adjust the tempo to achieve synchronization. Speed is preferred to keep the enemy off
  balance. Establishing the conditions for offensive actions may require slowing the tempo as the pieces are
  set in place. Once ready,the tempo is increased,and the action takes place rapidly.