text: Offense
  (cid:122) Delay measures to protect assets from actual or perceived intrusion.
  (cid:122) Response measures to assess:
  (cid:131) Unauthorized acts.
  (cid:131) Report detailed information.
  (cid:131) Defeat an aggressor.
  6-74. Subordinate units of the BCT may be involvedin area security in an economy-of-force role to protect
  lines of communications,convoys,and critical fixed sites and radars during the conduct of the offense. Units
  identify antiterrorism measures through mission analysis to counter terrorist tactics. The BCT commander,
  with the assistance of the antiterrorism officer and staff, assesses the threat, vulnerabilities, and criticality
  associated with conducting the offense. The BCT’s protection cell provides staff oversight and recommends
  the emplacement of security forces to thwart identified threats and to conduct populace and resource control.
  The protection cell increases overall protection through implementation of antiterrorism measures to protect
  the force. Staff members weight the probability of terrorist organizations attacking forces en route to execute
  offensive operationswithin the protection cell. Staff members analyze the susceptibility of terrorist attacks
  on other BCT subordinate units along lines of communications with the reduction of available combat forces
  other than an economy of force role by security forces. (SeeATP 3-37.2 for additional information.)
  6-75. Military police support to protection, when requested and received, includes security and mobility
  support (see ATP 3-39.30),detention (specifically detainee operations [see FM 3-63]),and police operations
  (see ATP 3-39.10). The security and mobility support discipline,discussed earlier under mobility,provides
  the BCT with a distribution of military police forces throughout the area of operations. These military police
  forces support mobility operations, and conduct area security, local security, main supply route regulation
  enforcement,and populace and resource control. Military police forces,when assigned,patrol aggressively
  and conduct reconnaissance to protect units,criticalfacilities,high-riskpersonnel,and civilian populations
  withinthe BCT’s area of operations. Military police support planning includes identifying requirements for
  task organization of military police elements. (SeeFM 3-39 for additional information.)
  6-76. Military police support to the offense includes missions and tasks that support uninterrupted
  movement,allow maneuver forces to preserve combat power so that it may be applied at decisive points and
  times,and foster rapid transitions in operations. Military police operations supporting the offense include the
  simultaneous application of military police capabilities. Military police operations in close support of
  maneuver forces are the primary focus duringoffensive operations;however,military police apply all three
  disciplines simultaneously to some degree. The primary focus is support that enables movement and
  maneuver,provides detention tasks to support captured or detained individuals,and provides protection.
  6-77. Military police operations during the conduct of the offense include early shaping operations to
  establish conditions for preparing follow-on efforts for civil security and civil control. Military police
  operations,in concert with other elements,begin the initial efforts to—
  (cid:122) Restore and maintain order in areas passed by maneuver forces.
  (cid:122) Assess the criminal environment and begin the identification of criminal elements.
  (cid:122) Identify and establish rapport with existing host-nation police or friendly security elements.
  6-78. Force health protection encompasses measures to promote, improve, or conserve the mental and
  physical well-being of Soldiers. (SeeATP 4-02.8.) Force health protection measures enable a healthy and fit
  force, prevent injury and illness, protect the force from health hazards, contributes to esprit de corps,
  resilience, and a professional organizational climate to sustain or create forward momentum or eliminate
  negative momentum,and include the prevention aspects of—
  (cid:122) Preventive medicine (medical surveillance,occupational and environmental health surveillance).
  (cid:122) Veterinary services (food inspection, animal care missions, prevention of zoonotic disease
  transmissible to humans).
  (cid:122) Combat and operational stress control.
  (cid:122) Dental services (preventivedentistry).
  (cid:122) Laboratory services (area medical laboratory support).