Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin articles from July 2003

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin archives from July 2003

From the editor.(information operations)(Editorial)
July 1, 2003... Information operations (IO), and intelligence support to IO, are simultaneously frustrating and intriguing. This "new" field of warfare fascinates many. A word of caution is advisable. ... there is no new thing under the...

Intelligence Community Online Network--a portal into MI's future. (Always Out Front).(military intelligence)
July 1, 2003... The U.S. Army Intelligence Center (USAIC) will deploy ICON, the Intelligence Community Online Network, in July 2003 as our newest effort to transform the Intelligence Center into a Digitized Center of Excellence for the Army. It will be a...

CSM forum.(Command Sergeants Major)
July 1, 2003... This past March, we had to postpone our Worldwide Command Sergeants Major/Sergeants Major (CSM/SGM) Military Intelligence (MI) Conference. However, we still selected the 2003 CSM Doug Russell Awardee, Sergeant (SGT) Andrew C. Rapp--a...

Visualizing the information environment.(military intelligence)
July 1, 2003... The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, the Departments of the Army and Defense, or the U.S. Government. Although the Army...

Information operations in support of demonstrations and shows of force.
July 1, 2003... A version of this article by then Major Tulak previously appeared in the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) Training Techniques, 2nd Quarter, Fiscal Year 2003 (TQ2-03) at http://call.army.mil/products/trngqtr/tq2-99/showforc.htm....

Measures of effectiveness in the information environment.
July 1, 2003... Assessing the effectiveness of an information operation is one of the greatest challenges facing a staff. Despite the evolution of information operations (IO) doctrine and the refinement of supporting tactics, techniques, and procedures...

Reserve support to IO: the 3431st MI Detachment [USAR] at NGIC.(National Ground Intelligence Center)
July 1, 2003... The 3431st Military Intelligence Detachment (MID), U.S. Army Reserve (USAR), is one of 16 Army Reserve MIDs WARTRACEd to the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) and supporting the Global War on Terrorism and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM....

Intelligence support to information operations: staff chaplains.
July 1, 2003... A version of this article previously appeared in the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) Training Techniques, 2nd Quarter, Fiscal Year 2003 (TQ2-03), (1) Reprinted with permission. IPB supports IO by identifying the IO capabilities and...

Like adding wings to a tiger--Chinese information war theory and practice.
July 1, 2003... The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. During the past five years,...

Determining battlefield effects in an urban environment: MOUT terrain analysis.(Military Operations in Urban Terrain)
July 1, 2003... The increased population and accelerated growth of cities have made the problems of combat in built-up areas an urgent requirement for the U.S. Army. This type of combat cannot be avoided. --FM 90-10-1 (1) Military operations in...

The new counterintelligence response to the cyberthreat.
July 1, 2003... The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the 902d Military Intelligence Group, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, the Departments of the Army and Defense, or...

Errata for "The Case for the MI Ranger".(Correction Notice)
July 1, 2003... MIPB regrets editorial changes that impacted the intended meaning of Captain Thomas Spahr's article in the April-June 2003 issue. In the Change in DA Policy Needed section, we printed: "... The exception to this policy is soldiers in the 96R...

CI in information operations: enabling operators and defining emerging roles for CI in Army IO.(counterintelligence)
July 1, 2003... The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the 902d MI Group, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca, Doctrine Division, Department...

Nonpassive defense of the Army's computer networks.
July 1, 2003... Imagine bringing the most powerful nation in the world to its knees without firing a shot. Imagine rendering the most powerful military force in the history of the world impotent without crossing your own border. Far fetched? According to a...

Intelligence in support of strategic signal units.
July 1, 2003... The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center, the Departments of the Army and Defense, or the U.S. Government. The intention of this...

Bridging the intelligence gap in the heartland: evolving MI roles in support to domestic criminal threats.(military intelligence)
July 1, 2003... The views and conclusions in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily present the official policies or positions of the Fort Riley Criminal Investigation Division Battalion, U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort...

Get your soldiers ready for deployment.
July 1, 2003... If you have been notified that you are deploying in support of one of the many operations in which our Army is currently engaged, welcome to the club. The companies busily prepare their units to load up their vans, jump on the "iron bird,"...

Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer (IEWTPT).
July 1, 2003... The Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer (IEWTPT) program evolved in response to the need that the Active Army and Reserve Component tactical Military Intelligence (MI) units had for a means to simulate an opposing...

CGS and Apache-Longbow linkage--a 2d Infantry Division initiative.(Common Ground Station)
July 1, 2003... The Common Ground Station (CGS) is a receiver-processor of Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) data. The CGS provides a visual display of this data correlated against a map background. In addition, the ground station...

Global war on terrorism: polygraph--an intelligence tool.
July 1, 2003... On 31 March 1998, in United States v. Scheffer (1) a divided U.S. Supreme Court held that either side could ban the results of a polygraph examination from use in a criminal trial because there is no consensus that polygraph evidence is...

Intelligence support to information operations: today and in the objective force. (Doctrine Corner).
July 1, 2003... Today U.S. military forces face a dynamic, multidimensional, and increasingly interconnected global environment. The characteristics of warfare continually evolve with technological advancements in information systems and communications. The...

Proponent notes.(2003 Military Occupational and Classification Structure change proposals)
July 1, 2003... Each spring, the Office of the Chief, Military Intelligence (OCMI), at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, compiles and coordinates the annual Military Occupational and Classification Structure (MOCS) change proposals, and sends them to the Department of...

ASAS Master Analysts' support to IO--Information Engineering. (Sly Fox).(All-Source Analysis System)
July 1, 2003... What does the All-Source Analysis System (ASAS) Master Analyst (additional skill identifier [ASI] 1F) bring to intelligence support to information operations (IO)? This will be the first of three articles discussing what the "Sly Fox" brings...

Reorganization of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center. (111th Training Notes).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2003... To use scarce resources more effectively, Brigadier General John Custer directed the reorganization of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca. Accordingly, on 1 April 2003, all training responsibilities other than those of the...

Distance learning.(online education)
July 1, 2003... An experienced Distance Learner, you participate and learn through distributive learning. You are doing so now. There are many places to go to learn, to study, and to build your knowledge base for enriching your personal and professional...

Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age.(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... In Stray Voltage: War in the Information Age, Brigadier General (U.S. Army, Retired) Wayne Hall provides an excellent treatise on information operations (IO) and their application to the battle for knowledge that very well may be the deciding...

310th Military Intelligence Battalion.
July 1, 2003... Oriental blue is the primary color associated with the Military Intelligence Corps. Black and silver symbolize overt and covert operations and the organization's around-the-clock vigilance. The organization's Griffin embodies alertness; it is...