text: Chapter 1
  Table 1-1. U.S. intelligence community members
  Department of Defense members Non-Department of Defense members
  • Defense Intelligence Agency • Office of Director of National Intelligence
  • National Security Agency • Central Intelligence Agency
  • National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency • Department of State
  • National Reconnaissance Office • Department of Energy
  • U.S. Army • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • U.S. Navy • Department of the Treasury
  • U.S. Air Force • U.S. Coast Guard
  • U.S. Marine Corps • Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Space Force • Drug Enforcement Administration
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  SECTION II – ARMY INTELLIGENCE
  1-18. Army intelligence is unique from joint and other Service intelligence activities for several reasons,
  some of which include the nature of Army operations and missions (primarily within the land domain), the
  fog and friction associated with Army operations sometimes creating time and environmental challenges, and
  the unique branch and staff structure. Army intelligence is—
  ⚫ Focused on the commander and staff.
  ⚫ Requirements-driven to support visualization, situational understanding, and targeting.
  ⚫ Synchronized and integrated within operations through the staff integrating processes and
  working groups.
  ⚫ Detailed, as much as required and possible, and usually time sensitive.
  ⚫ Employed as a warfighting function, which encompasses more than the military intelligence
  (MI)branch. The varied nature of the intelligence warfighting function occurs through four
  tasks: provide intelligence support to force generation, provide support to situational
  understanding, conduct information collection, and provide intelligence support to targeting.
  ⚫ Executed through the intelligence process, based on the joint intelligence process but modified to
  account for Army operations.
  1-19. Commanders and staffs require accurate, relevant, and predictive intelligence to understand threat
  characteristics, goals and objectives, and COAs across the domains and dimensions. Precise intelligence is
  also critical in detecting, identifying, and targeting threat capabilities at the right time and place and in
  opening windows of opportunity across domains and dimensions, particularly during large-scale combat
  operations. Commanders and staffs must have detailed knowledge of threat strengths, vulnerabilities,
  organizations, equipment, capabilities, training, employing and controlling forces, and tactics to plan for and
  contribute to unified action across the Army strategic contexts (competition below armed conflict, crisis, and
  armed conflict). This requires using the intelligence warfighting function to provide the detailed knowledge
  necessary to support the operations process.
  1-20. Intelligence drives the conduct of operations and operations enable intelligence, making intelligence
  and operations inseparable. Therefore, G-2/S-2s must ensure the intelligence warfighting function operates
  effectively and efficiently. G-2/S-2s are not simply managers; they are commanders’ primary advisors on
  employing collection assets and driving information collection. The result is the dissemination of intelligence
  or combat information to the right person at the right time and place. Combat information is a report that
  is gathered by or provided to the tactical commander which, due to its highly perishable nature or the
  criticality of the situation, cannot be processed into tactical intelligence before being used to support
  decision making. The commander and unit may create a level of risk by relying too much on combat
  information instead of intelligence.