ADP-3-19 FIRES Warfighting Function Download
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Introduction to Fires 31 July 2019 ADP 3-19 1-7 must be synchronized with the diplomatic, informational, and economic instruments of national power. Army forces utilize fires while performing the following major activities during operations to prevent: Execute flexible deterrent options and flexible response options. Set the theater. Tailor Army forces. Project the force. Flexible Deterrent And Response Options For Fires Ultimately, the aim is to prevent conflict through the early shaping of environments, while maintaining the capability to deter and defeat peer threats. The threat will employ traditional, unconventional, and hybrid strategies to threaten U.S. security and vital interests. Forces that create effects in support of the force may be forward deployed and regionally aligned in support of geographic combatant commanders' contingency plans. They provide force protection and counter anticipated threats. ADA forces are a preeminent means of deterrence in support of the U.S. commitment to preserve the peace by providing assurance of protection for our forces and allies. Forward stationed ADA units, such as Patriot battalions, further serve as a deterrent to our enemies by dramatically reducing their expectation of success. Lethal and nonlethal fires capabilities provide a commander with the ability to threaten adversary freedom of action across all domains, deterring them from taking offensive action. For example, long-range indirect fires assets provided by a field artillery brigade or division artillery can deploy to a theater to provide a response option against a threat's assets. Nonlethal capabilities may also complicate or degrade the ability of a threat to employ their assets offensively. During operations to prevent, targets are continuously refined, updated and added to relevant joint target databases as required. Army HQ in the roles of a joint task force or land component commander (LCC) must ensure fires and intelligence personnel within their formation are properly trained and certified to integrate into targeting work centers capable of basic, intermediate, and advanced target development to the joint standards outlined in joint doctrine and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff instructions. Targeting HQ, particularly those supporting operations above the brigade level, must be prepared to integrate non- Army fire support assets into the fire support plan in support of the joint HQ. Fires In Support of Setting the Theater The purpose of setting a theater is to establish favorable conditions for the rapid execution of military operations and the support requirements for a specific operation plan during crisis or conflict. Setting the theater involves significant sustainment, AMD, engineering, information collection, and communications activities focused on countering a specific threat (see FM 3-0). Commanders’ use fires capabilities and effects to set the theater by defending force generation assets from air and missile attack and integrating information collection assets into theater level targeting. Commanders employ fires to provide continuous land-based theater AMD capabilities to protect forces. Commanders and their fire support staff develop deliberate targets for current and future operations. These deep actions at the operational level set conditions for future successful combined arms operations. While conducting these actions, the force will be attacked in all domains, and especially in the information environment, and must take defense in other domains under consideration throughout operations to shape and prevent conflict. Tailoring Fires Capabilities Force tailoring is the selection and sequencing of forces for deployment. Army force packages are primarily developed by the Department of the Army and its subordinate commands based on the requirements determined by the theater army. These requirements may be part of either security cooperation plans or contingency plans to react to a crisis. When analyzing the mission to determine what fires capabilities are required, staffs should examine their target list with the commander to receive guidance on the commander’s objectives and what effects must be created against each target. Additionally, the staff should review the defended asset list (DAL) with the commander to determine what assets are required to defend against air and missile threats. These discussions should inform what fires capabilities are required. The commander