text: Army Strategic Contexts and Intelligence
  Two Key Aspects of Building Databases and Intelligence to Support
  Crisis and Armed Conflict
  Intelligence enterprise units and organizations should carefully use a federated analytical
  approach in developing and maintaining authoritative databases of threat indicators and key
  capability signatures and associated contextual information across all the domains and
  dimensions.
  Army intelligence units and organizations, in coordination with the intelligence enterprise,
  should use a federated analytical approach in analyzing threat systems similarly to joint TSA.
  Note. Army analysis of threat systems is not conducted to joint standards and is not captured
  in the same format as joint TSA and target development. When working as part of or to
  support the joint force, Army forces perform joint TSA and conduct target development to joint
  standards.
  SECTION III – CRISIS
  4-25. Crisis is an emerging incident or situation involving a possible threat to the United States, its citizens,
  military forces, or vital interests that develops rapidly and creates a condition of such diplomatic, economic,
  or military importance that commitment of military forces and resources is contemplated to achieve national
  and/or strategic objectives (JP 3-0). During crisis, armed conflict has not yet occurred, but it is either
  imminent or a distinct possibility that requires a rapid response by forces prepared to fight if deterrence fails.
  A crisis can be long in duration, but it can also reflect a near-simultaneous transition to armed conflict.
  Leaders do not assume that a crisis provides additional time for a transition to armed conflict. Crisis is
  different from crisis response, which can result from a natural or human disaster.
  ADVERSARY METHODS
  4-26. When conducting activities in an OE, peer threats seek to gain or maintain advantages against opponents.
  As a crisis develops, a peer threat uses information warfare and preclusion to shape the situation. This may
  include the adversary escalating or de-escalating its activities based on an assessment of the situation, which
  includes a calculation of the risk. During crisis, adversary methods include but are not limited to—
  ⚫ Shaping a crisis.
  ⚫ Controlling escalation.
  ⚫ Mitigating U.S. deterrence.
  ADVERSARY ACTIVITIES TO SHAPE A CRISIS
  4-27. Peer threats shape a crisis to their benefit by seeking to exploit real or perceived advantages, which
  can be local, regional, and/or global. Peer threats use information warfare and preclusion to gain an
  information advantage against U.S. messaging and further isolate U.S forces and capabilities from allies.
  4-28. Units and organizations, at and across echelons, conduct continuous information collection (including
  ISR within the joint force) to gain situational understanding of threat activities, capabilities, intent, and COAs.
  Threat forces seek to employ capabilities and conduct operations faster than friendly forces can act to gain
  and maintain a position of relative advantage. Threat forces can gain this advantage by finding a window of
  opportunity where friendly forces are either denied or delayed by specific circumstances from using the
  dynamics of combat power (leadership, firepower, information, mobility, survivability).