Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield: Critique and Recommendations.

Abstract

Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) represents a major step toward improving procedures for correlating data with enemy intent. The purpose of this report is to show how IPB could be improved by incorporating decision-analytic techniques and computerized decision aids to improve the judgmental process inherent within IPB. The first section of this report describes the necessary dependence of IPB on human judgment. This section identifies the different types of judgment inherent in each of the five steps in the IPB analysis process proposed. The general conclusion is that except for terrain analysis and weather analysis, these circulars fail to tell intelligence analysts how they are to make the judgments necessary to implement the proposed IPB analysis process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA096691

Entities

People

  • Leonard Adelman
  • Michael L. Donnell
  • Ruth H. Phelps

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Applied Psychology
  • Bayesian Inference
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Order Of Battle
  • Probability
  • Psychology
  • Scientific Research
  • Social Sciences
  • Tactical Decision Aids

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Science
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.