text: Chapter 3
  Signal Support to Operations to Shape and Prevent
  This chapter provides an overview of signal support to Army operations to shape and
  prevent. Section I discusses signal support in Army operations to shape. Section II
  discusses signal support in Army operations to prevent.
  SECTION I – OPERATIONS TO SHAPE
  3-1. Operations to shape 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 (FM 3-0).
  OVERVIEW OF ARMY OPERATIONS TO SHAPE
  3-2. Operations to shape support the geographic combatant commander’s theater campaign plan or the
  theater security cooperation plan. Operations to shape serve four primary purposes:
  * 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.
  * Setting conditions to win future conflicts.
  3-3. Shaping activities include unit home station activities such as maintaining operational readiness,
  training, contingency planning, combined exercises and training, military exchange programs, security
  cooperation, and military-to-military engagements. Figure 3-1 on page 3-2 depicts activities to shape
  operational environments and prevent conflict in an environment of cooperation and competition. Army
  forces conduct shaping activities as part of a joint team and a larger whole-of-government effort to assure
  friends, build partners, and to prevent, deter, or turn back adversary escalation.