text: Mission Command
  Figure 3-2. Reconnaissance tempo
  3-51. For context, a rapid and forceful tempo for route reconnaissance might entail hastily assessing the
  trafficability of bridges and bypasses; hastily observing for threat indicators (rapid movement results in hasty
  assessments); and engaging two enemy platoons or less (forceful due to the permissive engagement criteria).
  Whereas a deliberate and stealthy tempo might entail committing engineer assets to classify (time-consuming
  and deliberate) the bridges along a route (concerned with the complete task of bridge classification), while
  engaging any threat lesser than a squad (stealthy due to restrictive engagement criteria).
  3-52. It is less important that commanders use the specific terms (rapid or deliberate, forceful or stealthy) to
  communicate an organization’s reconnaissance tempo. Instead, commanders should strive to provide
  guidance within each area of tempo to assist subordinate units in understanding how the reconnaissance effort
  is nested within the supported organization’s operating tempo. Generally speaking, commanders should let
  reconnaissance forces know how much information that pertains to enemy and terrain that they need to gather,
  how quickly they need to gather the information, and how aggressive they can be in the pursuit of that
  information.
  Engagement Criteria
  3-53. Engagement criteria are protocols that specify those circumstances for initiating engagement with an
  enemy force (FM 3-90-1). They can either be restrictive, limiting the freedom that leaders allow their
  subordinates during engagements, or permissive, allowing subordinates their own judgment in initiating and
  completing engagements with threat forces. The squadron commander visualizes engagement criteria through
  an analysis of the mission variables of METT-TC (I).
  3-54. Commanders must define the size or type of enemy force they expect their subordinate units to engage
  or avoid, and they must specify the conditions. These decisions drive the planning for direct and indirect
  fires, as well as the establishment of bypass criteria. Bypass criteria are measures established by higher
  echelon headquarters that specify the conditions and size under which enemy units and contact may be