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1 ATP SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE BRIGADE. SEPTEMBER 2020. DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. This publication supersedes ATP , dated 2 May 2018. HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE army . This publication is available at the army Publishing Directorate site ( ) and the Central army Registry site ( ). *ATP army Techniques Publication Headquarters No. Department of the army Washington, , 02 September 2020. SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE Brigade Contents Page v INTRODUCTION .. vii Chapter 1 ORGANIZATION AND CAPABILITIES .. 1-1. Section I 1-1. Organization Design.

2 1-1. Organizing Principles, Capabilities, and Requirements .. 1-3. SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE Brigade Doctrine .. 1-4. Section II Mission and Roles .. 1-5. 1-5. Subordinate Unit 1-6. Section III Higher Headquarters Employment Considerations .. 1-8. Joint Operational Areas .. 1-8. Higher Headquarters .. 1-9. Command and Support 1-11. Section IV Advisor Teams .. 1-14. Task-Organization .. 1-14. Echelon of Advising .. 1-17. Additional Requirements .. 1-17. Section V Duties and Responsibilities .. 1-18. Maneuver Advisor 1-18. Fires Advisor 1-25. Engineer Advisor Teams .. 1-26. Logistics Advisor 1-27.

3 Brigade and Battalion Staff .. 1-29. Chapter 2 SFAB OPERATIONS .. 2-1. Section I Unified Land Operations and Mission Command .. 2-1. Unified Land Operations .. 2-1. SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE .. 2-2. Mission Command and the SFAB .. 2-3. Command and Control .. 2-8. Section II SFAB Operations Process Framework .. 2-9. Activities of the Operations 2-9. Distribution Restriction: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. *This publication supersedes ATP , dated 2 May 2018. ATP i Contents Principles of the SFAB Operations Process .. 2-10. Integrating Process .. 2-16. Battle 2-19.

4 Chapter 3 DEPLOYMENT AND REDEPLOYMENT .. 3-1. Section I Predeployment .. 3-1. Initial Coordination and Planning Events .. 3-2. Predeployment Site Survey .. 3-4. Advisor Team Task-Organization .. 3-5. Section II Deployment .. 3-6. Reception .. 3-6. Staging .. 3-6. Onward Movement .. 3-6. Integration .. 3-7. Mission Execution and Monitoring Activities .. 3-8. Section III Redeployment .. 3-8. Transfer to Follow-on Forces .. 3-8. Post-Execution Evaluation Activities .. 3-10. Chapter 4 ADVISOR TEAM EMPLOYMENT AND ACTIVITIES .. 4-1. Section I Advisor Team 4-1. Operational Considerations.

5 4-1. Organizational Reporting 4-2. Advisor Team Organization .. 4-4. Advisor Team Planning Models .. 4-6. Parallel Planning with Foreign SECURITY Forces .. 4-7. Section II Advisor Team Activities .. 4-8. Assess .. 4-9. Advise .. 4-25. Support .. 4-41. Liaise .. 4-43. Chapter 5 AUGMENTATION .. 5-1. Section I Augmentation Considerations .. 5-1. Permissive Environment .. 5-1. Hostile Environment .. 5-1. Coordination .. 5-2. Multinational and Foreign SECURITY Augmentation .. 5-2. Section II Augmentation Analysis .. 5-3. Command and Control .. 5-4. Movement and Maneuver .. 5-5. Intelligence.

6 5-6. Fires .. 5-8. Protection .. 5-10. Sustainment .. 5-11. Other Considerations .. 5-11. Chapter 6 6-1. Section I Protection Considerations .. 6-1. Establishing Friendly FORCE Protection Measures and Posture .. 6-1. Developing Foreign SECURITY FORCE Protection Measures .. 6-1. Leveraging Foreign SECURITY FORCE Capabilities to Enhance Protection .. 6-2. Section II SECURITY .. 6-2. Operations 6-2. ii ATP 02 September 2020. Contents Local SECURITY .. 6-2. Area SECURITY .. 6-3. Section III Reinforcing Protection Capabilities .. 6-5. Survivability Operations .. 6-5. Physical SECURITY .

7 6-5. Risk 6-6. FORCE Health Protection .. 6-6. Antiterrorism .. 6-7. Personnel Recovery .. 6-7. Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear .. 6-8. Explosive Ordnance Disposal .. 6-8. Section IV Civil Considerations .. 6-9. Police Operations .. 6-9. Detention 6-9. Populace and Resource Control .. 6-10. Chapter 7 SUSTAINMENT .. 7-1. Section I SFAB BSB Role and Organization .. 7-1. SFAB BSB 7-1. Logistic Operations .. 7-4. Section II army Health System 7-7. Health Service 7-7. FORCE Health Protection .. 7-7. Medical Support 7-7. Medical Evacuation .. 7-9. GLOSSARY .. Glossary-1.

8 REFERENCES .. References-1. INDEX .. Index-1. Figures Figure 1-1. 1-2. Figure 1-2. Advisor teams by echelon .. 1-3. Figure 1-3. SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE brigade doctrine .. 1-5. Figure 1-4. Country team structure .. 1-10. Figure 1-5. Joint operations area command relationships, example .. 1-13. Figure 1-6. Command relationships outside a joint operations area, example .. 1-14. Figure 1-7. Task-organized maneuver advisor team, 1-16. Figure 3-1. Mission 3-1. Figure 3-2. Relationship between country plan, theater campaign plan, and integrated country strategy .. 3-3. Figure 4-1. Organizational reporting structure.

9 4-4. Figure 4-2. Advisor team staff roles, 4-5. Figure 4-3. SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE tasks and advisor team activities .. 4-9. Figure 4-4. Assessment interaction .. 4-10. Figure 4-5. Assessment 4-14. Figure 4-6. Foreign SECURITY FORCE assessments .. 4-16. 02 September 2020 ATP iii Contents Figure 4-7. Organizational assessment rubric, example .. 4-17. Figure 4-8. Operational assessment worksheet, operational mission, example .. 4-20. Figure 4-9. Environmental assessment rubric, tactical level, example .. 4-22. Figure 4-10. Institutional assessment rubric, example .. 4-23. Figure 4-11.

10 Advising guidance .. 4-39. Figure 7-1. Support battalion task-organization .. 7-2. iv ATP 02 September 2020. Preface ATP provides techniques for the SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE brigade (known as SFAB) to conduct SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE (SFA). ATP provides techniques for leaders who plan, prepare, execute, and assess SFAB operations. The information in this army techniques publication is consistently reviewed and analyzed against real-world observations of the SFAB. The principal audience for ATP is the commanders, staffs, officers, and noncommissioned officers of the brigade, battalions, and squadron, and advisor teams within the SFAB.