Gold Book Chapter 5 Integrated Supporting Operations 1. By their nature, air assault operations require combined arms integration. Before committing forces deep, we must do our best to ensure that they will succeed. We set the conditions for success.
Condition setting is about situational awareness in the broadest terms.
It is about confirming or denying information about ourselves, the terrain and weather, and the enemy. All along, we must check and see what we know and how we re affecting those conditions by our actions. Condition setting is an iterative process that spans echelons from joint theater intelligence assets to an Apache team. All levels of command are involved in setting conditions. It follows the targeting process of deciding, detecting, delivering, and assessing.