text: Chapter 1
  ARMY STRATEGIC ROLES
  1-21. Army forces are organized, trained, and equipped to conduct prompt and sustained land combat to
  defeat enemy ground forces and seize, occupy, and defend land areas. The Army accomplishes its mission
  by supporting the joint force and unified action partners in four strategic roles:
  * Shape operational environments.
  * Prevent conflict.
  * Prevail in large-scale ground combat.
  * Consolidate gains.
  The strategic roles are not tasks assigned to subordinate units; instead, they clarify the enduring reasons for
  which the Army is organized, trained, and equipped.
  1-22. All operations conducted by Army forces require the use of capabilities from across multiple domains,
  the electromagnetic spectrum, and the information environment. Combining capabilities across multiple
  domains during operations provides opportunities for exploitation, and Army forces routinely combine
  capabilities to effect or compel desired human behavior on land. The convergence of these capabilities is
  critical to operations regardless of strategic role. In competition and conflict against a peer threat, all domains
  will be contested, and Army forces must account for this during operations.
  SHAPE OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
  1-23. Army operations to shape bring together all of the activities intended to promote regional stability and
  to establish security conditions for outcomes favorable to U.S. interests. Shaping activities include military
  engagement; security cooperation; and forward presence to promote U.S. interests, to develop allied and
  friendly military capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations, and to provide U.S. forces with
  peacetime and contingency access to a host nation. The Army garrisons forces and pre-positions equipment
  in areas to allow national leaders to respond quickly to contingencies. As part of operations to shape, Army
  forces provide trained and ready forces to GCCs in support of their campaign plans. Army operations to
  shape are continuous, occurring before, during, and after a joint operation in a specific operational area.
  PREVENT CONFLICT
  1-24. Army operations to prevent conflict or escalation of conflict include all activities to deter an
  adversary’s undesirable actions. These operations are an extension of operations to shape, and are designed
  to prevent adversary opportunities to further exploit positions of relative advantage. Operations to prevent
  conflict raise the potential costs to adversaries of continuing activities that threaten U.S. interests. They are
  generally weighted toward actions to protect friendly forces, assets, and partners, and to indicate U.S.
  intentions to execute subsequent phases of a planned operation.
  PREVAIL IN LARGE-SCALE GROUND COMBAT
  1-25. During large-scale ground combat operations, Army forces focus on the defeat and destruction of
  enemy ground and other forces as part of the joint team. Large-scale ground combat operations are sustained
  combat operations involving multiple corps and divisions (ADP 3-0). Army forces close with and destroy
  enemy forces in any terrain, exploit success, and break the enemy’s will to resist. Army forces attack, defend,
  perform stability tasks, and consolidate gains to accomplish national objectives. Field armies are the key
  operational formation, while divisions and corps are the tactical formations central to the conduct of large-
  scale combat operations. The ability to prevail in ground combat is a decisive factor in breaking an enemy’s
  capability and will to continue a conflict. Conflict resolution requires the Army to conduct sustained
  operations with unified action partners as long as necessary to accomplish national objectives while
  continuously consolidating gains.
  CONSOLIDATE GAINS
  1-26. Army operations to consolidate gains are activities to make enduring any temporary operational
  success and to set the conditions for a sustainable security environment, allowing for a transition of control