The Nature of Future Intelligence Organizations

Abstract

This monograph identifies the essential characteristics and capabilities of intelligence organization structures for an army force that is global, rapidly deployable and capable of executing fall spectrum military operations in joint and combined environments. It identifies these characteristics and capabilities by tracing the evolution of military intelligence organization structures over the past decade. It examines lessons learned from deployments to Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti as well as observations from Division Advanced Warfighting Experiments (DAWE) to determine causes of recurring problems related to intelligence organizational design. This monograph proposes a traditional, matrix and virtual models as potential intelligence organization structures. It analyzes each model's strengths and wealmesses, identifies essential characteristics, and assesses applicability of each relative to future environmental influences specific to offense, defense, stability and support operations. These environmental influences are stability, complexity and diversity. They are important considerations because they often necessitate changes in organizational design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 15, 2000
Accession Number
ADA389821

Entities

People

  • Leo R. Pacher

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Human Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Intelligence Products
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Intelligence
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Surveillance
  • Teamwork
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).