text: FM 7-100.1________________________________________________________________________________
  1-118. Today’s state-of-the-art combat and combat support systems are im-
  pressive in their ability to deliver precise attacks at long standoff distances.
  However, the growing reliance of some extraregional forces on these systems
  offers opportunity. Attacking critical ground-based C2 and RISTA nodes or
  logistics systems and LOCs can have a very large payoff for relatively low in-
  vestment and low risk to the OPFOR. Modern logistics systems assume se-
  cure LOCs and voice or digital communications. These characteristics make
  such systems vulnerable. Therefore, the OPFOR can greatly reduce a military
  force’s combat power by attacking a logistics system that depends on “just-in-
  time delivery.”
  1-119. For the operational commander, the systems warfare approach to
  combat is not an end in itself. It is a key component in his planning and se-
  quencing of tactical battles and engagements aimed toward achieving as-
  signed strategic goals. Systems warfare supports his concept; it is not the
  concept. The ultimate aim is to destroy the enemy’s will and ability to fight.
  APPLICATION AT THE TACTICAL LEVEL
  1-120. It is at the tactical level that systems warfare is executed in attacking
  the enemy’s combat system. While the tactical commander may use systems
  warfare in the smaller sense to accomplish assigned missions, his attack on
  systems will be in response to missions assigned him by the operational
  commander.
  APPLICATION ACROSS ALL TYPES OF STRATEGIC-LEVEL ACTIONS
  1-121. Systems warfare is applicable against all types of opponents in all
  strategic-level courses of action. In regional operations, the OPFOR will seek
  to render a regional opponent’s systems ineffective to support his overall con-
  cept of operation. However, this approach is especially conducive to the con-
  duct of transition and adaptive operations. The very nature of this approach
  lends itself to adaptive and creative options against an adversary’s techno-
  logical overmatch.
  RELATIONSHIP TO THE C2 PROCESS
  1-122. The systems warfare approach to combat is an important part of
  OPFOR planning. It serves as a means to analyze the OPFOR’s own combat
  system and how it can use the combined effects of this system to degrade the
  enemy’s combat system. The OPFOR believes that the approach allows its
  decision makers to be anticipatory rather than reactive.