text: Chapter 4
  ⚫ Assessing and improving protection measures against adversary capabilities.
  ⚫ SIGINT surveys and other intelligence surveys and assessments within the theater.
  ⚫ Leveraging Army engagements during the execution of foreign assistance, which includes
  humanitarian and civic assistance.
  FIGHTING FOR INTELLIGENCE
  4-21. Intelligence is integral in supporting operations during competition. Often, this intelligence support is
  expressed as setting the theater among Army intelligence professionals. Continuous monitoring of the OE to
  determine changes that may lead to an escalation of hostilities must occur to give decision makers adequate
  warnings to determine and execute optimal deterrent and response actions. The intelligence staff must
  establish a baseline intelligence architecture to meet a broad range of requirements, to include ensuring
  information is available to support decision making if the strategic context transitions to crisis and armed
  conflict. Intelligence must be continuously developed to ensure Army and other joint forces are prepared to
  meet the multitude of scenarios that could possibly drive change and escalate conflict. If the situation does
  escalate, intelligence support must be able to focus on critical stability and defeat mechanisms for subsequent
  activities and operations.
  4-22. Intelligence products assist the commander in countering actions by adversaries that challenge the
  security of forward-stationed units and the stability of a nation or region and are contrary to U.S. interests.
  Intelligence provides the commander and staff with the ability to—
  ⚫ Detect indicators of imminent threat activities and understand enemy intentions.
  ⚫ Track enemy activities and capabilities across the domains and dimensions.
  ⚫ Understand how the threat is attempting to gain and/or maintain positions of relative advantage.
  ⚫ Make informed decisions and realistic assessments of operational and tactical risks.
  ⚫ Support targeting.
  ⚫ Support information advantage activities.
  4-23. Support to contingency plan development, which is treated as a branch to the campaign plan, is a vital
  activity during competition. Different situations within an AOR can cause a branch to the campaign plan,
  including regional instability, armed aggression, natural or man-made disasters, or humanitarian crises.
  Intelligence assists in identifying these potential situations and participates in developing plans to mitigate
  these scenarios.
  4-24. Intelligence databases also have an important role in setting the theater from an intelligence
  perspective. Managing and creating unclassified and classified databases provide interoperable and
  collaborative environments for Army and joint forces, national agencies, and multinational organizations.
  Databases facilitate intelligence analysis, reporting, production, dissemination, sustainment, and intelligence
  reach. Within each theater, the development and validation of databases generally occur in a top-down
  manner, with significant support from regionally aligned forces and special operations forces. This allows
  units to maintain, populate, and continually update a thorough and accurate set of databases during
  subsequent Army strategic contexts. However, there may be instances when regionally aligned forces must
  develop and populate an authoritative database of threat signatures and associated contextual information, in
  conjunction with joint forces and the DIA. This is particularly true when an area quickly transitions from
  competition to crisis. In some scenarios, each echelon below theater army must prepare to establish localized
  intelligence databases during any strategic context. Unit SOPs should outline the requirements for managing,
  formatting and standardization, indexing and correlation, normalization, storage, security protocols, and
  associated applications.
  Note. It is critical for commands to update intelligence databases continually with actual and
  potential threat information to maximize the value of intelligence products and reports.