text: Chapter 7
  7-21. Another example of echelon interdependencies is intelligence support to targeting. Echelons above
  corps organizations are critical in building target folders during competition and then disseminating them to
  land force commanders. Currently, MIB-Ts and aerial exploitation battalions provide the Army’s organic
  deep collection assets, which are essential to collecting information relevant to targeting. MIB-Ts have the
  data storage and data transport necessary to connect ground units at echelons corps and below to joint target
  folders and other theater-level targeting materials. As such, echelons above corps intelligence organizations
  support targeting from competition to armed conflict.
  SECTION IV – THEATER ARMY
  7-22. The ASCC of a combatant command can be a theater army. The Army contributes organizational
  elements and capabilities to JFCs to conduct unified action across the range of military operations. Theater
  army headquarters, operating from CPs with their associated theater-enabling commands and functional
  brigades, can control Army or joint forces for smaller-scale contingency operations. (See ATP 3-93.)
  7-23. The theater army maintains an AOR-wide focus, providing support to Army and joint forces across the
  region, in accordance with the combatant command’s priorities of support. Depending on the region and the
  combatant command’s priorities, the relative emphasis that the theater army places on its operational and
  administrative responsibilities can vary greatly, to include—
  ⚫ Shaping the AOR to improve positions of relative advantage held by U.S. forces and their allies.
  ⚫ Protecting against threat actions outside of the operational area.
  ⚫ Preventing the expansion of conflict unintended by friendly decision makers and senior
  commanders.
  ⚫ Detecting and striking enemy capabilities that reside outside of a joint operations area.
  7-24. The theater army enables the CCDR to employ landpower anywhere in the AOR across the range of
  military operations. It commands Army forces in the region until the CCDR attaches selected Army forces
  to a JFC. When that happens, the theater army divides its responsibility between the Army Component in the
  joint operations area and Army forces operating in other parts of the AOR. Each theater army synchronizes
  with unified action partners and employs the instruments of national power to fulfill policy aims within the
  assigned theater to support the national strategy. (See FM 3-0.)
  7-25. Theater army intelligence operations are continually conducted to provide information and intelligence
  used to support land forces, including allied and partner-nation forces, in order to extend the capacity and
  capabilities of those forces and improve intelligence support to U.S. forces. Results from these operations
  provide guidance on plans and policies and strategic guidance. For the Army’s corps, divisions, and BCTs,
  theater army intelligence operations provide information used in IPOE, support to targeting, support to
  information advantage activities, situation development, and protection; they also provide warning
  intelligence.
  7-26. The theater army headquarters has a G-2 who assists the commander in processing, analyzing, and
  disseminating information and intelligence provided by higher, subordinate, and adjacent units. (See
  ATP 2-19.1-1.)
  THEATER ARMY G-2
  7-27. The theater army G-2 is the commander’s principal assistant who advises, plans, and coordinates
  actions of the intelligence warfighting function. The theater army G-2 is the chief of the intelligence cell,
  theater army’s senior intelligence officer, and principal intelligence advisor to the theater army commander.
  7-28. The theater army G-2 is equipped with intelligence systems and processors that connect to all required
  networks. These systems are interoperable with the Army’s C2 suite of systems and can share data with Army
  organizations at all echelons and organizations within the U.S. IC. Using these systems, the theater army G-2
  provides the authoritative intelligence estimate of enemy units and intent through the shared CIP, providing
  the foundation for lower echelons.