text: Army Air and Missile Defense
  accordance with the priorities for defense and available assets, may be positioned in corps or division
  consolidation areas to defend against enemy residual air and missile capabilities. While an enemy may
  possess few of these capabilities – the majority having been destroyed or disabled during the dominate phase
  (large-scale ground combat) of an operation, an attack by a single missile may have a catastrophic impact on
  a maneuver formation, C2 facility, or geopolitical asset.
  ADA IN SUPPORT OF UNIFIED LAND OPERATIONS
  1-49. Unified land operations apply “landpower as part of unified action to defeat the enemy on land and
  establish conditions that accomplish the joint force commander’s (JFC’s) objectives” (ADP 3-0). Within the
  context of unified land operations, an operational framework is used to describe operations by echelon in
  time and space for an area of operations and areas of influence or interest. Land force commanders establish
  close, deep, support, and consolidation areas within their areas of operations to describe the physical
  arrangement of their forces over time and their forces’ respective roles and missions. Figure 1-1 displays
  ADA organizations overlaid across the areas.
  Figure 1-1. ADA echelons in support of a theater of operations
  1-50. SHORAD forces are positioned with division or brigade maneuver formations in the close area, where
  the majority of subordinate maneuver forces conduct close combat. ADAM cell personnel in the BCT plan
  and coordinate the support of SHORAD or other ADA forces and relay pertinent AMD information and early
  warning of enemy air activity to maneuver formations. Patriot units may add supplementary protection of the
  maneuvering forces from their designated locations in the corps or theater areas and/or may be repositioned
  to sustain coverage. In support of the fight in the corps or theater deep area, the AAMDC or ADA brigade
  calculate prospective launch areas for ballistic missiles and nominate said areas for subsequent targeting by
  long-range artillery and aviation assets. The AAMDC and ADA brigade will also assess likely enemy air
  avenues of approach and missile operating areas from the corps’ deep area into the close, support, and
  consolidation areas and design defenses that are positioned to negate surveillance or attack. ADA forces in
  the support and consolidation areas provide continuous defense of sustainment facilities and participate in
  the requisite security and stability tasks. SHORAD forces generally protect assets in the division and brigade
  areas, while Patriot and THAAD units maintain coverage of assets in the division, corps, and theater areas.
  See FM 3-0 for additional discussion of the operational framework, its various considerations, and its
  operational areas.