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Chapter 4 4-2 ATP 3-09.24 30 March 2022 COMPETITION BELOW ARMED CONFLICT 4-8. The theater army is the key organization that plans and organizes Army operations during competition. However, other Army organizations are crucial to the execution of Army operations during competition. Corps and subordinate echelons execute tasks and provide the forces employed for security cooperation. 4-9. Army forces may support security force assistance or foreign internal defense by participating in multinational exercises, conducting humanitarian and other civil-military operations, development assistance, and training exchanges. Army forces at corps echelons and below directly engage with partner forces, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and civilian populations to accomplish their mission, build rapport, and improve conditions that promote stability. 4-10. During competition, the corps fills one of three roles during exercises to prepare for large-scale combat operations. The corps can be designated as tactical land headquarters employing multiple divisions, typically in an OPLAN or during exercises. When no organization is available to assume the role of a combined or joint task force headquarters or land component command headquarters during a contingency operation or training event, the corps can assume this role after it undergoes the necessary training and integration of other Service staff personnel. When the corps is the land component command headquarters, it also serves as the ARFOR. (See FM 3-94 and ATP 3-92 for 3947 more information on the corps). UNIFIED LAND OPERATIONS 4-11. Unified land operations are the simultaneous execution of offense, defense, stability, and defense support of civil authorities across multiple domains to shape operational environments, prevent conflict, prevail in large-scale ground combat, and consolidate gains as part of unified action (ADP 3-0). The Army is the dominant U.S. fighting force in the land domain. Army forces both depend upon and enable the joint forces across multiple domains (air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace). 4-12. This mutual interdependence creates powerful synergies and reflects that all operations have multi- domain components. The Army depends on the other Services for strategic and operational mobility, joint fires, and other key enabling capabilities. The Army supports other Services, combatant commands, and unified action partners with ground-based indirect fires and ballistic missile defense, defensive cyberspace operations, electromagnetic protection, communications, intelligence, rotary-wing aircraft, logistics, and engineering. JOINT OPERATIONS 4-13. Joint operations are military actions conducted by joint forces and those Service forces employed in specified command relationships with each other, which of themselves, do not establish joint forces (JP 3-0). The FAB provides joint FS through the conduct of corps-level strike operations in conjunction with other joint capabilities and enablers. Joint fire support is joint fires that assist air, land, maritime, space, cyberspace, and special operations forces to move, maneuver, and control territory, airspace and key waters (JP 3-0). 4-14. A JTF integrates joint FS from all available capabilities, including air-to-surface, surface-to-surface, cyberspace operations, offensive space control, electronic attack, information related activities, and nonlethal capabilities. Joint FS supports forces in contact, supports the joint force commander’s contingency operations, integrates and synchronizes joint FS, and sustains joint FS operations. Prior to execution, joint FS planning is part of the joint planning process. During execution, joint FS is planned as part of the joint targeting process. MULTINATIONAL OPERATIONS 4-15. Multinational operations is a collective term to describe military actions conducted by forces of two or more nations, usually undertaken within the structure of a coalition or alliance (JP 3-16). While each nation has its own interests and often participates within the limitations of national caveats, all nations bring value to an operation. Each nation's force has unique capabilities, and each usually contributes to the operation's legitimacy in terms of international or local acceptability. Army forces should anticipate that most operations will be multinational operations and plan accordingly.