What the Army’s Return to Large-Scale Operations Means for the Intelligence Warfighting Function
Caroline Bechtel | May 8, 2018
The recently published US Army doctrine manual, FM 3-0: Operations, describes how the Army is adapting its posture to the current operational environment. Emerging regional threats like Iran, North Korea, and Russia require the Army to shift its focus from counterinsurgency to large-scale combat operations. At the same time, the character of war is evolving to battle across multiple domains including land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Given these converging changes, the next war the United States fights will be far more dynamic and complex than the counterinsurgency and stability operations in which it has been heavily engaged for more than a decade and a half. This reality creates new problems and requirements for the intelligence warfighting function, and requires intelligence professionals to develop the skills needed to meet these requirements and abandon the concepts, habits, and standard operating procedures learned and practiced over this period.
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