text: Fighting for Intelligence During Large-Scale Combat Operations
  8-46. Intelligence activities in close operations (BCT) focus on—
  ⚫ Gaining and maintaining information concerning threat activities and intentions:
  ▪ Locating and targeting HPTs.
  ▪ Providing support to branches and sequels.
  ▪ Locating and targeting bypassed forces.
  ▪ Locating reserve forces.
  ▪ Locating present/planned obstacles, including the use of obscuration and chemical weapons.
  ▪ Threat’s use of denial and deception.
  ▪ Threat’s use of EW.
  ▪ Threat’s use of misinformation and disinformation in population centers.
  ▪ Threat’s use of UASs, including drone swarms.
  ⚫ Activities to consolidate gains.
  ⚫ Support to security activities.
  ⚫ Support to protection activities.
  Rear Operations
  8-47. The rear area is that area in a unit’s AO extending forward from its rear boundary to the rear boundary
  of the area assigned to the next lower level of command. Operations in this area facilitate movement, extend
  operational reach, and maintain the desired tempo. Rear operations support close and deep operations. At the
  operational level, rear operations sustain current operations and prepare for the next phase of the campaign
  or major operation. At the tactical level, they enable the tempo of combat, assuring friendly forces have the
  agility to exploit any opportunity.
  8-48. Rear operations typically include efforts that consolidate gains to make conditions created by deep and
  close operations more permanent. Corps and division rear CPs are generally responsible for rear operations.
  Rear operations typically include five broad activities:
  ⚫ Positioning and moving reserves.
  ⚫ Positioning and repositioning aviation, fire support, and air and missile defense units.
  ⚫ Conducting support area operations.
  ⚫ Securing sustainment and C2 nodes.
  ⚫ Controlling tactical-unit movement between corps and divisions or rear boundary and units
  conducting close operations.
  8-49. There are several considerations for conducting rear operations:
  ⚫ C2.
  ⚫ Information collection activities to detect enemy forces.
  ⚫ Establishing and maintaining routes.
  ⚫ Terrain management.
  ⚫ Movement control.
  ⚫ Protecting critical friendly capabilities.
  ⚫ Information activities.
  ⚫ Infrastructure repair and improvement.
  ⚫ Defeating bypassed forces and continuing to consolidate gains.
  ⚫ Minimum-essential stability operations tasks:
  ▪ Establish civil security, which requires Army units to protect the population from violence
  and restore public order.
  ▪ Provide immediate needs, which requires Army units to ensure the population has food,
  water, shelter, and emergency medical treatment.
  ⚫ Coordinating with host-nation and multinational governmental organizations.