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Maneuver Enhancement Brigade 09 November 2021 FM 3-81 1-17 1-76. In large-scale combat operations against regional peer enemies, commanders conduct decisive action to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative. This involves the orchestration of many simultaneous unit actions in the most demanding of operational environments. Large-scale combat operations introduce levels of complexity, lethality, ambiguity, and speed to military activities not common in other operations. Large-scale combat operations require the execution of multiple tasks synchronized and converged across multiple domains to create opportunities to destroy, dislocate, and disintegrate enemy forces and isolate enemy forces from positions of relative advantage. During large-scale combat, the MEB controls terrain and provides security, movement control, mobility support, and clearance of fires in the echelon (corps or division) support area to facilitate operations, freedom of action, and sustainment. See FM 3-0 for additional information on multidomain operations and large-scale combat operations. 1-77. Consolidate gains are the activities to make enduring any temporary operational success and set the conditions for a sustainable security environment, allowing for a transition of control to legitimate authorities (ADP 3-0). Consolidation of gains is not separate nor isolated from large-scale combat operations; consolidation of gains activities are a form of exploitation inherent to large-scale combat operations. ARFOR conduct consolidation of gains throughout the range of military operations. The MEB, when properly task- organized, supports the consolidation of gains and focuses their priorities toward the performance of the initial response tasks of the six primary stability tasks as the security situation stabilizes. See FM 3-0 for additional information on the consolidation of gains.