Strategic Intelligence Cycle

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Intelligence collection has been in existence for hundreds of years. Think back during the revolutionary war when Paul Revere yield out “the British are coming; the British are coming”. That was intelligence gathering and dissemination of information during that era in history. In modern days information gathering is a bit more complex. But. very useful to decision and policy makers on issues regarding the security of the United States.
Strategic Intelligence contributes greatly to the United States national security and to the policy and decision makers. Strategic intelligence is required to implement strategies that will guide the war fighters to victory. A strategy is the logic that determines what the plan should be. 1 Strategic intelligence is essential for the development of military war fighting plans and the national …show more content…

Assets such as Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) all have a different function, but have the same goal of gathering information. Prior to employing any of these assets the Intelligence Cycle must begin. 3 Leaders at all levels begin with the first phase of the cycle by planning and directing. Once the plan has been completed, approved, and disseminated phase two of the cycle can begin. During phase two of an intelligence cycle the asset begins collection of information. Upon completion of phase two the information gathered is processed. The process raw data collected is then analyzed for protentional intelligence value. Once analysis is conducted the information upon approval may be disseminated to the Intelligence Community (IC). Each one of the five phases in the Intelligence Cycle cannot function alone from the other phases, one phase feeds the other. The Intelligence Cycle is continuous.

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