The Operational Use of Intelligence: What to Avoid

Abstract

Military experience throughout history has had numerous examples of effective deception and surprise. Results of the surprise usually means destruction of the military forces caught unaware. The reasons for the unawareness lies in a failure to heed intelligence information of incomplete analysis in the intelligence process. This paper looks at four areas of the intelligence process: Acquisition, Analysis, Dissemination and Acceptance and compares them to historical accounts of post World War Two battles. The comparisons sheds same light on where the intelligence process goes wrong. The goal of the paper is to examine the limitations of intelligence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 13, 1992
Accession Number
ADA249833

Entities

People

  • Michael R. Oakes

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Capillary Electrophoresis
  • Education
  • Intelligence Community
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Lessons Learned
  • Materials
  • Military Science
  • New York
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Second World War
  • Terrain
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies