1-79. Enemies are likely to initiate hostilities against a friendly force from initial positions of relative advantage. These include physical, temporal, and cognitive positions and cultural, informational, and other human factors peculiar to the land domain. Once an enemy is in a position of disadvantage, the joint force must rapidly exploit its advantage with force-oriented operations to destroy key enemy capabilities. Well synchronized, high-tempo offensive action, often in the form of ground maneuver, is required to defeat enemies with significant long-range fires and air defense capabilities. Understanding the importance of planning and executing area security and stability tasks is also necessary to consolidate gains across multiple domains in ways that support the purpose of friendly tactical operations to achieve strategic goals.