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This issue of MIPB is devoted to Knowledge Management (KM). Why? Because I believe it is one of the most important things we are doing today and as Military Intelligence (MI) professionals it is a critical part of our profession. We often hear the terms "data," "information," and "knowledge" being used and usually they are used in a hierarchy that goes from data to information to knowledge. Data are facts, numbers, or individual entities without context or purpose. Information is data that has been organized into a meaningful structure (to aid decision making). And finally, knowledge is information with personal context applied. Therefore, knowledge is information provided in context to produce an actionable understanding. The key word is …