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Base Camp and Base Cluster Security and Defense 09 November 2021 FM 3-81 E-5 within the protection warfighting function in ADP 3-37 and the associated defensive tasks detailed in FM 3-90-1, including— Comprehensive. Base camp and base cluster protection is an all-inclusive utilization of complementary and reinforcing protection tasks and systems available to base camp commanders to preserve the force. Integrated. Base camp and base cluster protection is integrated with other activities, systems, efforts, and capabilities associated with base camp missions to provide strength and structure to the overall effort. Integration must occur vertically and horizontally throughout the process. Layered. Base camp and base cluster protection capabilities are arranged using a layered approach to provide strength and depth. Layering reduces the destructive effect of a threat or hazard. Redundant. Base camp and base cluster protection efforts are often redundant anywhere that a vulnerability or point of failure is identified. Redundancy ensures that specific activities, systems, efforts, and capabilities that are critical for the success of overall base camp protection have a secondary or auxiliary effort of equal or greater quality. Enduring. Ongoing base camp and base cluster protection activities maintain the objectives of preserving combat power, populations, partners, essential equipment, resources, and critical infrastructure throughout the base camp life cycle. Figure E-1. Framework for base camp security and defense E-22. Base camp and base cluster security and defense capabilities are employed using a layered approach to provide strength and depth. Layering reduces the destructive effect from any single attack or hazard through the dissipation of energy or the defeat of the attacking force. A layered defense slows threat attacks and provides time for friendly defensive forces to assess, decide, and respond. Obstacles, such as barbed wire fences, jersey barriers, T-walls, berms and ditches, bastion barriers, networked munitions, and direct-fire positions and elements are deployed in depth, in a concentric fashion, to provide maximum protection.