7-8. The Army’s framework for exercising mission command is the operations process. The major mission command activities performed during the conduct of offensive tasks are planning, preparing, executing and continuously assessing the operation. The offense keeps the enemy off balance, exploits positions of relative advantage, and continuously reduces the enemy commander’s options across all domains and the information environment. Planning results in a plan and orders that synchronize the action of forces in time, space, and purpose to achieve objectives and accomplish missions. (See ADRP 5-0 for a discussion of planning.)