Adp 2: Intelligence (Promotion Board Study Guide)

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What does ADP 2-0 Cover?

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Intelligence

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What are hazards?

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conditions or natural phenomena able to damage or destroy life, vital resources, and institutions, or prevent mission accomplishment.

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how do multinational and interagency partners reinforce and complement army intelligence capabilities?

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by providing cultural awareness, as well as unique perspectives and capabilities

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What is intelligence?

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the product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, evaluation, analysis, and interpretation of available information concerning foreign nations, hostile or potentially hostile forces or elements, or areas of actual or potential operations

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what is the purpose of ISR?

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to synchronisze and integrate the planning and operations and dissemination systems in direct support of current and future operations

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What is intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance?

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synchronizes and integrates the planning and operation of sensors, assets, and processing, exploitation, and dissemination systems in direct support of current and future operations

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What does the intelligence warfighting function provide Commanders?

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provides the commander with intelligence to plan, prepare, execute, and assess operations

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What are the two most important aspects of intelligence?

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enabling mission command and providing support to commanders and decision makers

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How do Commanders provide guidance and continuous feedback throughout operations?

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Providing direction; Stating clear, concise commander’s critical information requirements (CCIRs); Synchronizing the intelligence warfighting function; Participating in planning; Collaborating with the G-2/S-2 during the execution of operations

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What does the intelligence warfighting function allow a commander to understand?

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the enemy, terrain, and civil considerations

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For the purposes of intelligence the term “enemy” includes what?

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the entire range of threats

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For the purposes of intelligence, the term “terrain” also includes what?

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weather because it will have an impact on operations

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What is “Intelligence support to force generation”?

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the task of generating intelligence knowledge concerning an operational environment, facilitating future intelligence operations, and tailoring the force

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What is “Intelligence support to situational understanding”?

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the task of providing information and intelligence to commanders to assist them in achieving a clear understanding of the force’s current state with relation to the threat and other relevant aspects of the operational environment

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What is “Conduct information collection”?

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the task that synchronizes and integrates the planning and employment of sensors and assets as well as the processing, exploitation, and dissemination of systems in direct support of current and future operations

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What is “Intelligence support to targeting and information capabilities”?

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he task of providing the commander information and intelligence support for targeting to achieve lethal and nonlethal effects

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What must Commanders consider when using the intelligence warfighting function?

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Intelligence does not eliminate uncertainty entirely; Determining the appropriate balance between the time allotted for collection and operational necessity; Prioritizing finite resources and capabilities; Resourcing and prioritizing the intelligence warfighting function appropriately to have enough network capability; Employing organic and supporting collection assets as well as planning, coordinating, and articulating requirements to leverage the entire intelligence enterprise

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What is Information Collection?

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an activity that synchronizes and integrates the planning and employment of sensors and assets as well as the processing, exploitation, and dissemination of systems in direct support of current and future operations

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What should the G-2/S-2 and G-3/S-3 staffs work together on to collect, process, and analyze information for the commander on?

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threats, terrain and weather, and civil considerations that affect operations

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What are the three information collection tasks?

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Plan requirements and assess collection; Task and direct collection; Execute collection

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What are shaping operations?

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Reconnaissance, surveillance, security operations, and intelligence operations

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What type of operation is a commander’s primary means to plan, organize and execute information collection?

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Shaping Operations

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Does the G-2/S-2 staff tasking authority over the information collection of assets?

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No they can recommend only to the G-3/S-3 staff only using the orders process

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Who does the G-2/S-2 staff recommends tasking of information collection assets and capabilities to?

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the G-3/S-3 staff who will then use the orders process

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What is considered successful information collection efforts?

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the timely collection and reporting of relevant and accurate information, which either supports the production of intelligence or is disseminated as combat information

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What is the “Intelligence Enterprise”?

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sum total of the intelligence efforts of the entire U.S. intelligence community

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What is the “Intelligence Warfighting Function”?

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the Army’s contribution to the intelligence enterprise

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What makes up the “Intelligence Enterprise”?

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all U.S. intelligence professionals, sensors, systems, federated organizations, information, and processes supported by a network-enabled architecture

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What is the most important element of the Intelligence Enterprise?

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the people that make it work

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What will make the Intelligence Enterprise ineffective?

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If there is no collaboration between the different agencies

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What is the job in an Army Intelligence Analyst?

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to leverage the intelligence enterprise to create a more comprehensive and detailed assessment of threats and relevant aspects of the operational environment to facilitate mission command

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What are Fusion Centers?

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ad hoc cells designed to enable lethal and nonlethal targeting, facilitate current or future operations, and inform decisionmaking

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Who has the overall responsibility and management of the intelligence community?

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The Director of National Intelligence (DNI)

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What are the agencies that make up the intelligence community?

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Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Navy

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What are the intelligence core competencies?

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intelligence synchronization, intelligence operations, and intelligence analysis

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What must all military intelligence units and military intelligence Soldiers continuously train on in order to maintain a high degree of proficiency?

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The intelligence core competencies

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What is intelligence synchronization?

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the “art” of integrating information collection and intelligence analysis with operations to effectively and efficiently support decisionmaking

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What are some critical aspects of effective intelligence synchronization?

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Early and continuous teamwork with the commander and across the staff; Expertise and proficiency in information collection and leveraging the intelligence enterprise; Mastery of the intelligence process; A collaborative environment for flexible, creative analysts to solve complex problems

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What are the four primary means of collecting information?

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Intelligence operations, reconnaissance, surveillance, and security operations

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What is Intelligence Operations?

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the tasks undertaken by military intelligence units and Soldiers to obtain information to satisfy validated requirements

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What is an Intelligence Analysis?

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the process by which collected information is evaluated and integrated with existing information to facilitate intelligence production

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What is the purpose of the Intelligence Analysis?

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to describe the current—and attempt to proactively assess— threats, terrain and weather, and civil considerations

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What are three aspects that enable effective staff support and intelligence analysis?

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critical thinking; embracing ambiguity; collaboration

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What is critical thinking?

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disciplined and self-reflective, provides more holistic, logical, and unbiased analysis and conclusions

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What are the six interrelated categories of intelligence operations?

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Planning and direction; Collection; Processing and exploitation; Analysis and production; Dissemination and integration; Evaluation and feedback

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What are the four steps of the Army’s Intelligence process?

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plan and direct, collect, produce, and disseminate

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What are the two continuing activities the Army intelligence process?

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analyze and assess