text: Offense
  6-26. During combined arms operations,commanders compel the enemy to respond to friendly action. Such
  friendly actions nullify the enemy’s ability to conduct their synchronized,mutually supporting reactions. The
  offense involves taking the fight to the enemy and never allowing enemy forces to recover from the initial
  shock of the attack.
  6-27. The commander integrates and synchronizes all available combat power to seize, retain, and exploit
  the initiative, and to sustain freedom of movement and action. The commander employs joint capabilities
  across multiple domains when provided,such as close air support and surveillance assets to complement or
  reinforce BCT capabilities.
  6-28. Air-ground operations (see chapter 4) support the commander’s objectives. Relationships, common
  understanding,and mutual trust enhance the planning,coordination,and synchronized employment of ground
  and air maneuver. Air-ground operations require detailed planning of synchronized timelines,aviation task
  and purpose, and airspace management. Aircraft are limited in time due to fuel requirements and fighter
  management of aircrew duty day. The commander and staff use friendly timelines and synchronization
  matrixes to ensure air assets are at the rightplace at the right time,that they nest with the ground maneuver
  plan,and provide the desired effects to support the BCT mission. Aviation commanders and staffs use these
  timelines to manage aircrew duty day and aircraft readiness.
  SCHEME OF MANEUVER
  6-29. The scheme of maneuver covers the actions from before line of departure to consolidation and
  reorganization. The BCT operation order scheme of maneuver paragraph addresses the following:
  (cid:122) Task and purpose of subordinate elements.
  (cid:122) Reconnaissanceand surveillance effortsand security operations.
  (cid:122) Actions at known or likely enemy contact locations.
  (cid:122) Scheme of fires.
  (cid:122) Direct fire control measures.
  (cid:122) Fire support coordination measures and airspace coordinating measures.
  (cid:122) Commander’s critical information requirements (CCIRs).
  (cid:122) Methods for moving through and crossing dangerous areas.
  (cid:122) Movementformation and known locations where the formation changes.
  (cid:122) Employment of battlefield obscuration.
  (cid:122) Actions and array of forces at the final objective or limit of advance.
  (cid:122) Decision points and criteria for execution of maneuver options (attack,report and bypass,defend
  and retrograde),that may develop during execution.
  6-30. On the objective once seized,assault forces conduct consolidation and reorganization. Consolidation
  is the organizing and strengthening a newly captured position so that it can be used against the enemy
  (FM3-90-1).Reorganizationis all measures taken by the commander to maintain unit combat effectiveness
  or return it to a specified level of combat capability (FM 3-90-1). During consolidation and reorganization,
  the BCT forces execute follow-on missions as directed. One mission is to continue the attack against targets
  of opportunity in the objective area. Whether a raid,attack (as a hasty or deliberate operation),or movement
  to contact,BCT subordinate units’posture and prepare for continued action and to defeat local counterattacks.
  The BCT commander may pass follow-on forces through assault forces or have them bypassed by other
  forces to continue the attack. On the objective,assault forces may be tasked to establish support by fire and
  attack by fire positions. BCT subordinate commanders or assault force leaders identify initial support by fire
  and attack by fire positions to reinforce the unit’s limit of advance and to support follow-on missions.
  MOBILITY
  6-31. Engineer priority of support typically is to mobility,although it may rapidly change to countermobility
  in anticipation of an enemy attack. Engineer reconnaissance teams,from the brigadeengineer battalion (see
  chapter 1,section I),join reconnaissance and security forces (see chapter 5) to reconnoiter obstacles based
  on an analysis of the mission variables of METT-TC. Planned suppression and obscuration fires support
  breaching operations. Additional combat engineers, task organized for breaching, reducing obstacles, and