UNIFIED LAND OPERATIONS

The central idea of Unified Land Operations is that Army units seize, retain, and
exploit the initiative to gain and maintain a position of relative advantage in
sustained land operations to create conditions for favorable conflict resolution.
This central idea applies to all military operations—offensive, defensive, and
stability or defense support of civil authorities. This unifying principle connects
the various tasks Army forces may perform. It adds the founding principles of
flexibility, integration, lethality, adaptability, depth, and synchronization. It
incorporates the principle that operational art is the connection between strategic
objectives and tactical actions, and provides a common construct for organizing
military operations. The construct consists of the Army operations process, an
operations framework for visualizing and describing operations, and the
warfighting functions