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NATO Gets Better Intelligence New Challenges Require New Answers to Satisfy Intelligence Needs for Headquarters and Deployed/Employed Forces
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NATO Gets Better Intelligence
New Challenges Require New Answers to Satisfy Intelligence Needs for Headquarters and Deployed/Employed Forces
Publisher: Friedrich W. Korkisch
Volume: 75 pages, pdf
Description:
Originally, this article was based on a verbal invitation by SHAPE in 2004 to look somewhat deeper into NATO intelligence. The rather critical outcome of the first draft was mirrored in the title NATO Needs Better Intelligence. In the meantime certain corrections were implemented.
Over the years, NATO had identified some weak areas and implemented a number of improvements. One was the Fusion Center, others were lessons learned in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan, by the Australians in East Timor, errors made in the operations that Israel had waged against southern Lebanon 2006 and the Gaza Strip in 2009, the use of UAVs for intelligence gathering and counter-strikes, recent Special Forces raids into Pakistan and in the Philippines, and improving the C4ISR/C4ISTAR and Net-Centric Warfare capabilities.
Events and proposals were analyzed, formalized and introduced, but without changing standardized procedures too much. When Afghanistan emerged again as a growing trouble spot in the fall of 2006, intelligence saw a chance to show the difference that good and timely intelligence could made. Still there were a number of intelligence failures, mainly based on some clumsy procedures, but the J2/A2/G2/CIA/DIA and air reconnaissance establishment tried to fulfill expectations and even more. But at the same time were intelligence officers criticizing the established ways intelligence was requested, formalized, ordered, handled, conducted and processed. All the high quality and speed won by better communication was lost by political and hierarchical obstacles and more and more commands which wanted to be involved in the process.