Enabling Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Effects for Effects-Based Operations Conditions (Maxwell Paper, Number 34)
Abstract
In support of national and military security strategies, the DOD has established the joint force commander (JFC) as the means to provide unity of command, exercised through component commanders, during contingency operations. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) is key to the JFC's successful prosecution of contingency operations. The term ISR is often misperceived as a generic synonym for such platforms as uninhabited aerial vehicles or satellites without regard to the complexities of the larger US national intelligence community (IC), or even a full understanding of the convoluted command relations and underpinnings of the DOD's intelligence resources beyond the JFC's span of con- trol. Colonel Johnson states that ISR processes are at least as challenging, if not more so, than the targeting process used to place a bomb on a target. The multifaceted complexity cannot be overstated as both national and theater ISR architectures include many linked nodes that can act and be tasked independently from one another (i.e., the platforms, sensors, DOD and commercial communication nodes, and a variety of exploitation organizations). The JFC cannot continue to ignore this reality if he or she wants to properly employ ISR-intensive effects-based operations (EBO) to achieve overall campaign objectives - that is, to provide unity of ISR effects in support of the campaign plan.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA437138
Entities
People
- Daniel R. Johnson
Organizations
- Air War College