text: Chapter 1
  1-122. Two concepts related to fighting for intelligence during competition below armed conflict and crisis
  that are critical to setting conditions for effective intelligence support during a large-scale combat operation
  (armed conflict) are—
  ⚫ Setting the globe: The United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) and
  other echelons above corps intelligence staffs, organizations, and units constantly collaborate to
  address the ends, ways, and means to sustain and improve national to tactical intelligence
  capabilities globally. This concept focuses on supporting modernization and preparing for the
  future fight—a fight that is faster and more lethal, information-centric, and globally
  interconnected—while building near-term strategic readiness and executing current intelligence
  missions.
  ⚫ Setting the theater: This describes the broad range of actions conducted to establish the
  conditions in an operational area. The intelligence warfighting function must constantly set the
  theater for Army forces across all echelons of a deployed force in theater. Intelligence staffs and
  MI units must carefully transition intelligence capabilities and activities to support engagements
  and operations as the Army transitions from one strategic context to the next. (See ADP 2-0.)
  1-123. Fighting for intelligence is most challenging during large-scale combat operations as the threat can
  apply operational reach, contest friendly deployments, leverage highly lethal and effective nonlethal
  capabilities across multiple domains, and influence friendly forces across multiple dimensions. Gaining
  situational understanding of a peer threat is very complicated because of antiaccess (A2) and area denial
  (AD) capabilities such as long-range precision fires and integrated air defense systems (IADSs). Situational
  understanding is often more difficult to reach within the relevant aspects of the human and information
  dimensions. Maneuver units, not just MI units, must be prepared to fight for intelligence to gain information
  against enemy formations, a range of sophisticated threat capabilities, and many unknown conditions within
  the OE. The commander and staff will have to make difficult choices in terms of accepting risk to Soldiers
  conducting information collection.
  1-124. Key aspects of fighting for intelligence include the following:
  ⚫ Commanders drive intelligence.
  ⚫ Effective staff integration is crucial.
  ⚫ Effective intelligence requires leveraging the intelligence enterprise and actively maintaining the
  intelligence architecture.
  ⚫ The struggle to gain and maintain a continuous and relatively complete understanding of the OE
  across the domains and dimensions.
  ⚫ A thoroughly developed and flexible information collection plan focused on the right
  requirements is critical.
  1-125. During the fight for intelligence, conducting information collection requires thorough and creative
  planning, aggressive execution, and adjustments based on the situation. The G-2/S-2—in coordination with
  the G-3/S-3 and integration with other staff members, leveraging national to tactical collection capabilities—
  has an integral part in fighting for intelligence to identify and ultimately open windows of opportunity at the
  right time and place to leverage one or more capabilities across domains. Staff integration is crucial; the staff
  must collaborate to overcome challenges and mitigate information collection capability risks and system
  limitations by developing an integrated information collection plan synchronized and nested across echelons.