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  Table 2-1. Intelligence considerations for Army strategic challenges (continued)
  Army strategic challenge Intelligence considerations (not all-inclusive)
  • Commander involvement and staff teamwork.
  Integrating and synchronizing intelligence at all • Access to the intelligence enterprise and architecture through intelligence reach.
  echelons, distributed across large operational • Intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination.
  areas with diverse requirements. • Developing and maintaining the common intelligence picture.
  • Synchronizing intelligence activities across deep, close, and rear areas.
  • Military intelligence training and integrating military intelligence forces into formations.
  • Military intelligence force tailoring.
  Preparing forward-stationed forces to fight and win
  • Pre-mission analysis of the operational environment.
  while outnumbered and isolated.
  • Intelligence preparation of the operational environment.
  • Intelligence application of the imperatives of operations.
  • Leveraging the intelligence enterprise during force projection through intelligence
  reach.
  Protecting forward-positioned forces and those
  • Intelligence support to protection.
  moving into a theater.
  • Counterintelligence primary mission areas.
  • Continuous information collection.
  • Access to the intelligence enterprise and special collection capabilities.
  • Warning intelligence.
  Minimizing vulnerability to weapons of mass
  • Intelligence preparation of the operational environment.
  destruction.
  • Support (including terrain and weather analysis) to unit dispersion across operational
  environments.
  Maintaining command and control and the
  • Access to the intelligence enterprise and architecture.
  sustainment of units distributed across vast
  • Synchronizing intelligence activities across deep, close, and rear areas.
  distances in noncontiguous areas and outside
  • Support to sustainment.
  supporting ranges and distances.
  • Intelligence activities to consolidate gains.
  • Coordination with military police and other friendly forces.
  Maintaining a desirable tempo while defeating fixed
  • Continuous information collection.
  and bypassed enemy forces.
  • Support to targeting.
  • Synchronizing intelligence activities across deep, close, and rear areas.
  Defeating threat information and irregular warfare • Intelligence support to information advantage.
  attacks against the United States and strategic • Discrediting disinformation and misinformation.
  lines of communications. • Integration into joint special operations forces’ intelligence efforts.
  CENTRIXS Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System
  US BICES United States Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System
  STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENT
  2-11. The central challenge to U.S. security is the reemergence of long-term, great power competition with
  China and Russia as individual actors and as actors collaborating to achieve common goals. China uses its
  rapidly modernizing military, information warfare, and predatory economics to coerce neighboring countries
  to reorder the Indo-Pacific region to its advantage. Additionally, The Belt and Road Initiative, a massive
  China-led infrastructure project, aims to globally create influence. Concurrently, Russia continues to expand
  influence in its near abroad and adversely affect security through strategic messaging, economic manipulation
  (energy and trade), and conflicts in Eastern Ukraine and Georgia. Russia’s capabilities challenge the security
  environment in Europe.
  2-12. In addition to China and Russia, several other states threaten U.S. security. North Korea seeks to
  guarantee survival of its regime and increase its leverage. It pursues a combination of CBRN, conventional,
  and unconventional weapons and a growing ballistic missile capability to gain coercive influence over South
  Korea, Japan, and the United States. Similarly, Iran seeks dominance over its neighbors by asserting an arc
  of influence and instability while vying for regional hegemony. Iran uses state-sponsored terrorist activities,
  a network of proxies, and its missile capabilities to achieve its objectives.
  2-13. While states are the principal actors on the global stage, nonstate actors also threaten the strategic
  environment with increasingly sophisticated capabilities. Terrorists, transnational criminal organizations,
  threat cyberspace actors, and other malicious nonstate actors have transformed global affairs with increased
  capabilities of mass disruption. Terrorism remains a persistent tactic driven by ideology and enabled by
  political and economic structures.