text: Army Strategic Contexts and Intelligence
  4-51. At the tactical level, systems warfare centers largely on targeting high-value battlefield systems such
  as radars, command and communications nodes, field artillery and air defense systems, and critical logistics
  support means. (For Chinese tactics, see ATP 7-100.3 and FM 3-0.)
  RUSSIA
  4-52. Russian forces seek to shape the OE to gain and maintain relative advantages across the domains and
  dimensions. Russia seeks to do this by synchronizing capabilities and their effects simultaneously to
  overwhelm U.S. and allied force capabilities and capacity and weaken the United States’ national will to
  continue a conflict. (For Russian tactics, see FM 3-0.)
  4-53. Russian goals are centered on creating constraints that prevent success of the United States’ campaign
  by using methods that focus on four key areas:
  ⚫ Disrupt or prevent understanding of the OE. Russian information warfare activities
  manipulate the acquisition, transmission, and presentation of information in a manner suitable to
  Russia’s preferred outcomes.
  ⚫ Target stability. Russia may foster instability in key areas and among key groups so regional
  security conditions do not support U.S. operational requirements.
  ⚫ Disaggregate partnerships. Russia acts upon U.S. allies and partners to reduce the United
  States’ ability to operate in its preferred combined, joint, and interagency manner.
  ⚫ Prevent access. Russia employs preconflict activities to deny access to U.S. forces, using nonlethal
  means initially and transitioning to lethal means if necessary. Russia seeks to undermine
  relationships, raise political stakes, manipulate public opinion, and attack resolve to constrain or
  deny basing rights, overflight corridors, logistics support, and concerted allied action.
  4-54. Similar to U.S. forces, Russian forces operate combined arms forces to exploit the effects of both
  precision strikes and massed fires. Russian forces also—
  ⚫ Employ all available national elements of power both before employing conventional warfare
  and maneuver forces and after employing conventional warfare.
  ⚫ Employ deep maneuver against lesser opponents, when possible, to defeat an enemy’s will to
  resist early in a conflict.
  ⚫ Mass capabilities in pursuit of more limited objectives while fixing their adversary along a broad
  front.
  ⚫ Employ denial and deception to mask the true intent of operations.
  ⚫ Use the effects of strike actions to create the condition for military success.
  ⚫ Apply intelligence methods and decision making that are scientifically based to—
  ▪ Understand the conditions of an OE that will impact operations.
  ▪ Determine the tactical functions required and calculate the required allocation of combat
  power needed to accomplish a mission in a specific time and location.
  ▪ Understand the psychological and cognitive issues among competing friendly forces,
  aggressor forces, the local population, and other actors in an OE.
  CONSOLIDATING GAINS
  4-55. During armed conflict, Army forces deliberately plan to consolidate gains throughout an operation.
  This is part of defeating the enemy in detail to accomplish overall policy and strategic objectives. From a
  small unit perspective, consolidating gains can be actions on the objective and preparing for enemy
  counterattacks, while from a theater army perspective, it can be incorporating partner-nation forces into
  ongoing operations. From the intelligence perspective, intelligence support to consolidating gains often
  focuses on situational understanding, warning intelligence, support to force protection, identity activities, and
  cultural understanding; it also assists in determining termination criteria or when it is operationally acceptable
  to transition from large-scale combat operations to post-conflict competition.