Intelligence Overview

Question 1

What is the purpose of intelligence?

Answer 1

• To support commanders and staffs in gaining situational understanding of the OE.
• Support commanders to make decisions.
• Supports the ops process (plan, prepare, execute, assessment)

Question 2

Whats the difference between single-source and all-source intelligence?

Answer 2

All source uses multiple disciplines and sources. More reliable.

Question 3

What is PED?

Answer 3

Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination. Its the commanders organic intel capabilities (think people and systems).

Question 4

What are the seven intel disciplines?

Answer 4

GHOSTMC

GEOINT
HUMINT
OSINT
SIGINT
TECHINT
MASINT
CI

Question 5

What three factors are used to collect information?

Answer 5

Time
Space
Purpose

Question 6

What are the two types of analysis?

Answer 6

Predictive - Use data points to predict what the enemy will do.

Functional - Put yourself into the enemy’s shoes and guess what they would need to do IOT be successful.