Intelligence Flashcards

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Describe Intel Function vs Process

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The Intelligence Warfighting Function executes the Intelligence Process by employing Intelligence Disciplines to produce Intelligence Products

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What is the purpose of Intelligence?

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The purpose of intelligence is to support commanders and staffs in gaining situational understanding of Operational Environment (OE).

Intelligence supports the planning, preparing, execution, and assessment of operations (Operations Process).

The most important role of intelligence is to support commanders and decision makers.

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Describe PED

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Processing, Exploitation, & Dissemination (PED)

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Describe GEOINT

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The exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess, and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth.

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Uses for GEOINT

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  • General military intelligence and indications and warning
  • Safety of navigation
  • Operational Awareness
  • Mission Planning
  • Mission command products
  • Target intelligence
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Describe SIGINT

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Derived from communications, electronic, and foreign instrumentation signals.

Provides unique intelligence information, complements intelligence derived from other sources, and is often used for cueing other sensors to potential targets of interest.

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Describe MASINT

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Produced by quantitative and qualitative analysis of data (metric, angle, spatial, wavelength, time dependence, modulation, plasma, and hydromagnetic) derived from specific technical sensors for the purpose of identifying any distinctive features associated with the emitter or sender, and to facilitate subsequent identification and/or measurement of the same.

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Describe OSINT

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The discipline that pertains to intelligence produced from publicly available information that is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience for the purpose of addressing a specific intelligence requirement.

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Describe TECHINT

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Intelligence derived from the collection, processing, analysis, and exploitation of data and information pertaining to foreign equipment and material for the purposes of preventing technological surprise, assessing foreign scientific and technical capabilities, and developing countermeasures designed to neutralize an adversary’s technological advantages.

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Describe HUMINT

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The collection by a trained human intelligence collector of foreign information from people and multimedia to identify elements, intentions, composition, strength, dispositions, tactics, equipment, and capabilities.

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