text: Chapter 5
  operations. This element should locate at the command post where it can most effectively support the
  division. (See FM 6-05 for more details on special operations forces integration.)
  DIVISION OPERATIONS
  5-75. Divisions operate in a joint, multinational, and multi-domain environment, integrating their assigned
  forces and available joint capabilities and synchronizing their effects to achieve objectives. During the
  planning and conduct of operations, the division commander develops an operational framework to focus the
  division’s combat power most effectively over time and space and across domains. Operational-level
  commanders at the corps echelon and above are focused on the ability to orchestrate complex joint operations
  and campaigns. A division commander is normally focused on conducting decisive, shaping, and sustaining
  operations simultaneously across the depth and width of the division’s assigned AO.
  5-76. Division commanders seek to attack the enemy across the depth of the battlefield in ways that create
  multiple dilemmas for the enemy and opportunities for friendly forces. They create opportunities by accepting
  risk in some areas to mass the effects of combat power in others, usually but not always in support of their
  decisive operation. They set the conditions that enable the freedom of action by subordinate brigades acting
  in concert with their intent, seeking to avoid presenting division elements as lucrative targets to enemy
  long-range fires. Operations in depth expand the battlefield in ways that create greater numbers of
  opportunities and allow the division commander to control the tempo of operations and establish positions of
  relative advantage.
  5-77. Division commanders task-organize their assigned and attached forces in accordance with their
  judgment of the tactical situation. They designate command and support relationships to ensure subordinate
  and supporting commanders understand their roles in the operation and support the division commander’s
  intent. Commanders consider five related guidelines when organizing a division for decisive action:
  * The BCTs are organized, trained, and equipped to operate as a combined arms force. The division
  commander normally reinforces the BCTs with additional Army and joint capabilities and adjusts
  the tasks assigned to the BCTs accordingly.
  * Multifunctional brigades are more effective when they operate as they organized and trained. The
  division commander maintains the tailored organization of multifunctional brigades until tactical
  circumstances require temporary task organization of forces from one brigade to another.
  * The division operates more effectively when the commander adjusts tasks to subordinate units
  rather than constantly adjusting the division’s task organization.
  * The division commander determines the effective span of control for each brigade and does not
  exceed it. Additional units can slow the operations process in a brigade, particularly as the tactical
  situation becomes more fluid.
  * When task-organizing brigades with multinational forces, the division commander considers
  reducing the brigade’s span of control, depending on the situation. The effective integration of
  multinational forces into a brigade will require significant effort and coordination.
  5-78. An effective division task organization—
  * Facilitates the division commander’s intent and concept of operations.
  * Retains flexibility within the concept of operations.
  * Facilitates massing combat power at the decisive point.
  * Weights the division’s decisive operation.
  * Adapts to conditions imposed by the mission variables.
  * Maintains or creates effective combined arms teams.
  * Provides mutual support among brigades.
  * Ensures flexibility to meet unforeseen events and support future operations.
  * Allocates resources with minimum restrictions on their employment.
  * Ensures unity of command and synchronization of effort through command and support
  relationships.