text: Army Strategic Contexts and Intelligence
  4-63. As a transition to stability operations occurs, leaders focus on stability operations tasks and information
  advantage activities to inform and influence populations and conduct security force assistance. Effective
  collaboration with diplomatic and humanitarian organizations enhances the ability to achieve stability
  mechanisms. Army forces play a key role in enabling the joint force to establish and conduct military
  governance until a civilian authority or government is given control of its assigned areas.
  TRANSITION TO POST-CONFLICT COMPETITION
  4-64. Army forces conclude armed conflict by establishing conditions favorable to the United States; they
  consolidate gains and prosecute operations with this desired end state. As hostilities end, stability operations
  tasks dominate operations with the purpose of transitioning responsibilities to legitimate authorities in a secure
  environment. Army forces provide the joint force with the option of establishing a military transitional
  government before transitioning full governing responsibility to host-nation or other provisional governments.
  4-65. Standards for transitioning governance responsibility depend on the credibility, capability, and
  capacity of the governing organization to maintain the favorable conditions established during armed conflict.
  Strategic leaders determine the broad conditions for transition at the outset of operations and refine them
  based on how the situation changes. Army forces play a key role in understanding the host-nation culture,
  understanding critical infrastructure, assisting strategic leaders in developing realistic transition goals and
  timings, and determining the duration and scale of U.S. commitments required to maintain stability.
  4-66. In some situations, operations may rapidly transition from large-scale combat operations to stability
  operations with the requirement to maintain continuous security while grappling with a new and very different
  set of challenges. Army units and organizations may modify their task organizations and priorities to meet
  additional tasks associated with stability operations. Some of the typical tasks associated with stability
  operations include the following: establish civil security, establish civil control, restore essential services,
  support to governance, support economic and infrastructure development, and conduct security cooperation.
  4-67. This transition is very complex and difficult for the intelligence warfighting function. Intelligence must
  support all six tasks; it must often support combatting terrorism, arms control, counterinsurgency,
  counterdrug operations, and foreign internal defense in a larger context. Essential to intelligence support
  during the transition to the enable civil authority phase of operations is determining how intelligence units
  can support enabling the sustainability of civil authority. During these operations, intelligence staffs and units
  have a different focus, organize in a different manner, and perform unique tasks:
  ⚫ Many unique aspects of the OE—such as sociocultural factors, regional and local politics, and
  financial intelligence—become important.
  ⚫ For special operations forces, integration and interoperability with conventional forces become
  critical. (See FM 6-05.)
  ⚫ Fusion centers and other unique analytical centers are formed.
  ⚫ Certain aspects of operations—such as counter-improvised explosive devices, counterterrorism,
  and screening local hires—become more important.
  FIGHTING FOR INTELLIGENCE
  4-68. Of all the Army strategic contexts, armed conflict creates the greatest challenge for the intelligence
  warfighting function, and large-scale combat operations against a peer threat is the most challenging form of
  armed conflict. The demands of large-scale combat operations consume all staff elements to provide the
  necessary support in the level of detail and at the tempo—the relative speed and rhythm of military operations
  over time with respect to the enemy (ADP 3-0)—these types of operations require. During large-scale
  combat, intelligence support is continually conducted to provide commanders and staffs the detailed
  knowledge of threat strengths, vulnerabilities, organizations, equipment, capabilities, and tactics to plan for
  and execute operations during unified action. An intense focus on the critical elements of intelligence
  support—such as supporting the commander and staff’s understanding, visualization, and ability to direct
  operations as well as assisting to drive the unit’s battle rhythm—is required. Chapter 8 details the roles and
  techniques associated with fighting for intelligence during large-scale combat operations.