text: Chapter 6
  reconnaissance operations to collect information and conduct security operations to protect friendly units, the
  local population, key actors, and key terrain to enable the establishment of civil security. (Refer to
  ATP 3-07.5 for more information.) BCTs and subordinate units execute zone and area reconnaissance
  operations to identify sources of instability affecting civil security. Companies and troops conduct route
  reconnaissance missions to support area security operations and retain freedom of maneuver within the area
  of operations. BCTs identify sources of instability and identify key terrain to facilitate the commander and
  staff’s understanding of the area of operations, and to plan and execute stability mechanisms. The commander
  uses reconnaissance operations to make informed decisions about allocating resources to each subordinate to
  establish civil security.
  6-52. BCTs conduct security operations to control borders, secure boundaries and provide freedom of
  movement, and to protect the main body, key personnel, and key facilities. Noncontiguous operations
  complicate the BCT’s ability to conduct security operations because potential threats use the civilian
  population as cover. BCTs employ mounted and dismounted patrols, engage with the local population, and
  employ aerial reconnaissance and observation posts to provide early warning, identify threats, and create
  opportunities. Security operations facilitate manageable transitions between stability framework phases and
  create dilemmas for threats that seek to undermine sustainable progress.
  6-53. Area security operations are essential to stability tasks because they degrade the enemy’s ability to
  affect friendly units, host-nation governance and security forces, key leaders, and key facilities. BCTs
  conduct area security operations to preserve the higher commander’s freedom of maneuver, protect key
  infrastructure and leaders, and deny threats access and opportunity to disrupt progress. BCTs establish
  security zones around critical infrastructure, airfields, facilities, MSRs, lines of communication, towns,
  equipment, and high-value assets. Combined security operations with host-nation partners enable a transition to
  the transformation phase of the stability framework by empowering host-nation security and bolstering legitimacy.
  6-54. During the fostering sustainability phase of the stability framework, the host-nation government
  assumes responsibility for securing its borders and for internal movement control. Remaining Army units
  consist of advisors or, in some cases, BCTs or battalions positioned as a deterrent against external threats.
  Advisors continue to help improve host-nation capacities as part of the larger security force assistance
  program. Potential external threats may cause military forces to conduct operations to confirm or deny
  threat intentions.
  SUPPORT TO CIVIL CONTROL
  6-55. Civil control centers on rule of law. Civil control provides training and support to law enforcement and
  judicial personnel to promote efforts to rebuild host-nation judiciary and corrections systems. Units
  conducting reconnaissance identify critical resources, influential pillar organizations, or leaders, sources of
  instability, and unified action partners operating in the BCT’s area of operations to support establishing civil
  control. During the initial response phase, BCTs may be required to assist host-nation partners in building
  interim solutions to establish civil control, which builds upon host-nation governance. Security gains capacity
  and capability transitioning to the transformation phase.
  6-56. Establishing security and rebuilding justice institutions develops conditions for reconciliation, public
  confidence, and subsequent economic growth. BCTs secure key infrastructure, identify key actors, and
  disrupt enemy forces. Reconnaissance tasks identify viable and working systems of government as well as
  gaps in civil control. Identification of government strengths and weaknesses focus efforts to collaborate with
  host-nation security forces and assist host-nation governance in providing viable security and services. Units
  conducting security tasks support civil control by interdicting threat activity seeking to subvert the local rule
  of law or legitimacy of an interim government through intimidation, corruption, or coercion.
  6-57. During the transformation phase of the stability framework, BCTs continue to conduct operations with
  unified action partners with efforts focused on building partner capacity. Reconnaissance tasks support civil
  control by identifying local population perceptions and acceptance of host-nation governance and security
  forces, adequacy of local infrastructure security and viability, sources of corruption, indicators of progress or
  regression, and acceptance and adherence to the rule of law. Security tasks support civil control by providing
  early warning to threats on infrastructure, facilities, and leaders and assessments of host-nation capabilities.