PLA Theater Army Attack on a U.S. Army Corps

This graphic represents a U.S. Army corps serving as a tactical headquarters under a joint command would face a multidomain PLA campaign designed to degrade its ability to command, sense, and strike. In a notional scenario with the corps in a defensive posture, the PLA’s goal would be to isolate the corps from the Joint Force, separate divisions from corps-level support, and disrupt corps-level command and control; computers; communications; cyber; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; and targeting. This would prevent the corps from setting conditions for the divisions and enable PLA maneuver to seize key terrain.