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The article reports on the development of long-range surveillance (LRS) doctrine in military in Iraq, which is designed to inherit the army's responsibility for ground surveillance in combat. It reveals that LRS companies have compiled a record of proven achievements in the country, which makes them a natural anchor of the army's new battlefield surveillance brigades. It also notes that LRS companies play an operational intelligence-collection in the army.

The article focuses on the achievements of Task Force Phantom in the Iraq War. It says that the task force depicted an uncommon case of the doctrinal use of a long-range surveillance (LRS) company in combat. One of the lessons learned from the experiences of the task force include the elimination of most of the support burden on three-star headquarters staff and reinforcement of the continuity and coherence of surveillance to boot in the addition of analysts and planners to the headquarters.