text: Chapter 6
  Intelligence Operations
  SECTION I – OVERVIEW
  6-1. MI unit collection operations (intelligence operations) follow the Army’s framework for exercising
  C2—the operations process. The major C2 activities conducted during operations are planning, preparing,
  executing, and continuously assessing. Intelligence commanders, supported by their staffs, use the operations
  process to drive the conceptual and detailed planning necessary to direct, lead, and assess intelligence
  operations.
  6-2. Through intelligence operations, MI collection personnel and systems collect information about
  capabilities, activities, disposition, and all other threat characteristics within the OE. Intelligence
  professionals follow the guidance outlined by the intelligence disciplines and complementary capabilities to
  ensure all tasks are accomplished successfully and in accordance with intelligence regulations and policies.
  6-3. MI collection personnel are trained and certified. MI sensors operated by MI personnel can be directed
  to collect information. These MI collection capabilities are distinct from other Army information collection
  capabilities, such as reconnaissance or surveillance. The distinction is required because intelligence
  collection must comply with all applicable U.S. laws and policy. (See appendix D.) Additionally, certain
  intelligence disciplines require specific training and certifications to conduct intelligence operations.
  SECTION II – INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS BASED ON INFORMATION
  COLLECTION
  6-4. Information collection is the Army doctrinal construct for synchronizing and integrating the planning
  and employment of sensors and assets to collect information. The intelligence warfighting function’s
  contributions to information collection include collection management and intelligence operations. Chapter 5
  discusses how collection management, through the intelligence process, nests within information collection.
  To understand intelligence operations, intelligence professionals must also understand information collection
  and how intelligence operations nest within it (under the execute collection task).
  INFORMATION COLLECTION AND INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
  6-5. Intelligence operations is one of the four primary tactical tasks and missions the Army conducts as part
  of information collection. (See figure 6-1 on page 6-2.) The other three are reconnaissance, surveillance, and
  security operations.
  Note. When necessary, maneuver units conduct offensive operations to collect information. This
  entails commanders assuming risk to determine threat characteristics in the OE. (See chapter 8.)