text: Fighting for Intelligence During Large-Scale Combat Operations
  8-18. IPOE and information requirements differ significantly during large-scale combat operations and often
  require detailed analysis. IPOE and information requirements, in supporting warning intelligence (which
  indicates changes in the likelihood of threat actions against friendly forces or developments likely to cause
  harm to friendly forces), are especially important in protecting the force. IPOE and information requirements
  also differ significantly based on the defensive or offensive operation, the specific situation, and unique
  requirements for concurrent supporting operations such as deep and rear operations. During both friendly
  defensive and offensive operations, there are consolidating gains requirements to detect enemy bypassed or
  stay-behind forces, special purpose forces, irregular forces, terrorists, and efforts to create an insurgency or
  conduct information warfare. Example IPOE and information requirements are listed throughout section III
  for the operational framework and various types of operations.
  8-19. Although large-scale combat operations considerations span the intelligence process, three areas of
  particular importance to intelligence include—
  ⚫ The intelligence architecture.
  ⚫ PED.
  ⚫ Information collection.
  INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE
  8-20. During competition, the intelligence architecture is developed well before any deployments based on
  future planning and assumptions regarding the employment of intelligence capabilities. During crisis and into
  a large-scale combat operation, intelligence leaders must carefully plan for revisions to the existing
  intelligence architecture and expand it as tactical units arrive in or move within a theater.
  8-21. During competition or crisis, no matter how well-planned, the friction of deployment and then large-
  scale combat operations can adversely affect the use and tactical extension of the intelligence architecture.
  For example—
  ⚫ The TPFDL may have execution flaws when situations arise that demand changes. This, in turn,
  delays transport and arrival in theater of key intelligence architecture components.
  ⚫ Damage to equipment essential to the intelligence architecture during transit from garrison to the
  port of debarkation may delay the integration and employment of that equipment into the
  intelligence architecture.
  ⚫ Friction at the port of debarkation, along forward movement routes, and at intermediate staging
  bases in theater, especially during contested deployments, can multiply RSOI challenges, which
  may impact the arrival and integration of intelligence architecture components.
  8-22. Friendly actions and conditions can also challenge establishing the intelligence architecture. For
  example—
  ⚫ U.S. forces may have to operate on a theater-specific network such as CENTRIXS or US
  BICES.
  ⚫ Receipt in theater of unanticipated Army, joint, and multinational reinforcing units adds
  requirements that stress the capabilities of the intelligence architecture.
  ⚫ Receipt in theater of new or unanticipated information collection or foundational capabilities
  stresses the ability to integrate these capabilities into the intelligence architecture when time
  available is limited and interoperability is less than optimal.
  ⚫ Greater congestion (more intelligence nodes than in peacetime) and greater volumes of
  transported data and information strain the intelligence architecture.
  PROCESSING, EXPLOITATION, AND DISSEMINATION
  8-23. Deployment and then large-scale combat operations can also cause the highest level of stress on the
  conduct of intelligence PED activities. Leaders and Soldiers must anticipate, plan, and train for intelligence
  PED in conditions closely resembling the strenuous conditions of large-scale combat operations. Although
  these high stress levels cannot be replicated in training environments, CP exercises, or field training exercises,
  leaders and Soldiers must exercise flexibility, adaptability, and creativity in performing intelligence PED
  tasks during large-scale combat operations.