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09 November 2021 FM 3-81 B-1 Appendix B Defense Support of Civil Authorities ARFOR demonstrate the Army’s core competencies by combining offensive, defensive, and stability or DSCA tasks. The continuous, simultaneous combinations of offensive, defensive, and stability or DSCA tasks is known as decisive action. In DSCA, decisive action refers to how ARFOR combine DSCA tasks to support homeland security and, if required, DSCA tasks with offensive and defensive tasks to support homeland defense. The MEB is well suited to provide support to civil authorities because it has the most complete multifunctional staff of any Army brigade. The MEB also has the skills needed to provide command and control for units that are frequently needed by civil authorities. This appendix discusses the MEB support to DSCA. DEFENSE SUPPORT OF CIVIL AUTHORITIES CORE TASK B-1. ARFOR conduct four core tasks (figure B-1 illustrates the DSCA core tasks with examples) in support of DSCA and the overall homeland security enterprise: Provide support for domestic disasters. Provide support for domestic CBRN incidents. Provide support for domestic civilian law enforcement agencies. Provide other designated domestic support plan. Figure B-1. DSCA core tasks with examples