text: Chapter 7
  HR Support and HR Planning Considerations during the
  Army Strategic Roles
  This chapter provides an overview of planning considerations to provide HR support
  provided during each Army strategic role (shape the operational environment, prevent
  conflict, prevail in large-scale combat operations [defensive/offensive], and
  consolidate gains). Each section describes the role, overview of HR support, and HR
  planning considerations, by echelon, for conducting personnel accounting and strength
  reporting, HR support to replacement and casualty operations, postal operations, and
  other HR considerations incorporated during LSCO. This chapter also provides an
  overview of HR training considerations for LSCO.
  OVERVIEW OF HR SUPPORT TO OPERATIONS TO SHAPE
  7-1. During large-scale combat operations, the Army must anticipate peer threat capabilities extending
  across the battlefield throughout all domains (land, maritime, air, space, and cyberspace), from the strategic
  support area to the deep area. These threat capabilities will likely degrade sustainment information systems
  and interdict friendly air, land, and maritime operations, all of which are essential components enabling rapid
  OPLAN execution during contingency operations. To counter these threats during the steady-state
  competition period, major activities take place across the extended battlefield and at all levels: military
  readiness at home station; coordinating efforts at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels; and regional
  partnership building activities to ensure access and resource availability in theater.
  7-2. Shape operations consist of various long-term military engagements, security cooperation, and
  deterrence missions, tasks, and actions intended to assure friends, build partner capacity and capability, and
  promote regional stability. Shape operations typically occur to support the geographic combatant
  commander's theater campaign plan or theater security cooperation plan. These operations help counter
  actions by adversaries that challenge the stability of a nation or region contrary to U.S. interests. As described
  in FM 3-0, there are four main purposes for shaping operations: promoting and protecting U.S. national
  interests and influence; building partner capacity and partnerships; recognizing and countering adversary
  attempts to gain positions of relative advantage; and setting conditions to win future conflicts.
  7-3. Sustainment plays a key role in shaping operations and HR planners must be involved from the very
  beginning. Human resources shaping activities include planning and coordination to support the combatant
  commander’s requirements. Key HR activities within the overall sustainment requirements are ongoing and
  directly support operations to shape to set conditions to win future conflicts. This list is not all-inclusive, but
  intended to demonstrate the volume of activities for consideration while shaping the operational environment
  to support the geographic combatant commander's theater campaign plan. Conceptually, each activity aims
  to optimize sustainment capabilities in the context of the geographic combatant commander's theater
  campaign plan (analysis to optimize unit and individual readiness and support deployment and personnel/unit
  distribution–which feeds into effectively executing RSOI). These shaping activities occur continuously to
  support global and theater requirements during competition and help set the conditions for successful
  execution of operations during conflict. Key HR activities to shaping operations include––
  * Conduct home station training.
  * Perform OPLAN/concept plan refinement.
  * Conduct HR support to RSOI planning/coordination.
  * Perform casualty estimation; replacement planning (individual versus unit).