Bridging the Full Spectrum Gap
- Initial/Interim Brigade is a rapidly
deployable combat brigade
- In Small Scale Contingencies:
-- Rapidly deploys to prevent, contain,
stabilize or terminate crisis
-- Land force capable of determining the outcome
- In Stability and Support Operations:
-- The Brigade is the guarantor combat force
-- It protects joint and coalition PK/PE forces
-- It may be the initial force deployed to separate
- Major Theater Wars - with augmentation,
fights as part of the Division:
-- Conducts Supporting Attacks
-- Fights as one of the brigades in the Division’s
Main Attack or Main reserve with augmentation
-- Conducts Economy of Force, Reconnaissance,
Screening, and limited Guarding actions