US Campaign, first mission observations (spoilers)

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Honestly, this mission plays out fairly simply for me.  I play on elite/iron only, and honestly I ignore much of the map for this one.  My goal is simple, blitz the hill on the left and take over the government complex that is up there.  At the beginning, I'll creep up slowly with my scouts, harass what I can, but focus on staying low and alive.  Once the Brads and M1s arrive however, I swing hard to the left, then rapidly get up the hill.  I'll try to dismount the infantry as close as I can while still being under cover, and then assault them up into the complex, with Brads slowly hunting up in support once they start taking fire.

The M1s I tend to keep a bit of a ways away from the complex, but still on the hill and in position to see down into everything.  Once the complex is locked down I aggressively push the M1s forward as much as I can to get eyes on targets.  From up on the hill they dominate everything.  T-72 get sniped from across the map, and Brads and infantry keep a sudden rush up into the complex from happening.  I focus UAV support around the base of the hill in my blind spots, to watch for Russians trying to mass down there so that they can blitz up the hill.

On the right side of the map, I'll have that one scout humvee and its passengers, and that's it, to keep an eyes out on things.  In the middle I might have a couple Brads and some infantry prevent a flank on the hill.

The purpose behind I do is simple, it maximizes all the advantages the USA has.  American FCS and FLIR allows you to spot the Russians from vast distances, and up on the hill you have all sorts of amazing LOS to exploit that advantage.  Having your tanks go through the right just takes away all of their advantages of long range combat, being up close with the Russians is the last thing you want.  As such, I focus the overwhelming majority of my forces onto the government complex hill in order to minimize the risk and maximize the advantages of the US as much as possible.