1-7. Commanders and staffs synchronize, integrate, and organize capabilities and resources to preserve combat power and identify and prevent or mitigate the effects of threats and hazards. Protection integrates all protection capabilities to safeguard the force, personnel (combatants and noncombatants), systems, and physical assets of the United States and its mission partners. In addition to the primary protection task, commanders and staffs must coordinate, synchronize, and integrate additional protection capabilities and resources of unified action partners.