Hale: Amid Rising Threats, ‘Lethality Starts with Intel’
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 15: Transforming Counterintelligence at the AUSA 2025 on October 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Alex Wroblewski
Wed, 10/29/2025 - 08:49
Amid a global environment that is increasingly volatile, uncertain and complex, Army counterintelligence acts as an important “frontline defense,” said Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale, deputy Army chief of staff for intelligence, G-2.
“Lethality starts with intel,” he said Oct. 15 during a Warriors Corner on transforming counterintelligence at the Association of the U.S. Army’s 2025 Annual Meeting and Exposition. “For the last 25 years plus, the [adversaries] have been collecting [information] on us at our 288 camps, posts [and] stations around the world and anywhere else our Army soldiers are located because we were focused on counterinsurgency, and we were focused on counterterrorism.”
Since the Army’s Counterintelligence Command was stood up in 2021, the command has made 25 arrests, executed over 650 national security investigations and conducted over 70,000 counterintelligence engagements, according to Col. Richard Dempsey, deputy commander of Army Counterintelligence Command.
“Those numbers talk about what we know, the enemy, that we can see. What keeps me up at night as a leader within the command is the threat that we can't see,” Dempsey said. “And let me be clear, we are in the fight right now, every minute of every day.”
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