The essential role of intelligence is not difficult to understand. It is to provide timely, relevant information to U.S. policymakers, decision makers, and war fighters. Accomplishing this mission involves tasking, collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence, commonly referred to as the intelligence cycle. There are many ways of collecting intelligence known as disciplines. The four categories of disciplines are as follows: HUMINT, SIGINT, IMINT, and MASINT. The different disciplines are not very useful if intelligence only comes from one resource, but when information is combined from two or more of these resources, one accurate conclusion can be identified.
The first category of intelligence is human source intelligence or HUMINT. This is the “cloak and dagger” of the intelligence community. Agents are sent out to gather information from human resources such as disgruntled employees, money-troubled patrons, or any person with something to hide. The problem with HUMINT is the sometimes-unreliable source. A potentially serious quality-control problem arises from the possibility that an agent has been “doubled”, or that he is secretly working for his supposed target and that the information he is providing to his supposed employer is intended to deceive. (Shulsky). This kind of situation is commonly reached when an agent is captured and a decision is reached to cooperate with the captors in order to avoid punishment.
The next type of intelligence gathering resource is signals intelligence or SIGINT, which can be subdivided into three categories: Communications intelligence, telemetry intelligence, and electronic intelligence (Johnson). The SIGINT discipline is essentially information obtained from intercepted communications, radars, or data transmissions. One of the ways that communication has been deceived in the past was found in World War II. In order to disguise communications during radio transmissions Native Americans from the same tribe where enlisted as radio operators. The Indians would speak their native language when the needing to discuss information about opposing Japanese or German forces making it nearly impossible to translate (AFN Pacific). Other types of SIGINT can be found in radar detection devices that allow an operator to know if his unit is being scanned as well as cryptological devices placed on telephones and computers used for classified information.
Another type of information gathering resource is imagery intelligence or IMINT, which is the use of space-based, aerial, and ground-based systems to take electro-optical, radar, or infrared images. These images of raw photographed data may not mean much to the layman, but an imagery interpreter will be able to depict, measure, and analyze information from a single image.
For the American intelligence community, George Washington is considered the father of intelligence. The introduction of the intelligence concept and its application in some missions during the early days of America helped America’s Founding Fathers to succeed against t...
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Traditional theories of intelligence do not account for the ambiguity of classes such as philosophy or for the wide range of interests a child can have. For example, contemporary theories such as Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence and Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences both account for more than the general intelligence accounted for in traditional intelligence theories. According to Robert Sternberg’s Successful (Triarchic) Theory of Intelligence, are Hector’s difficulties in philosophy indicative of future difficulties in the business world? According to Sternberg’s Theory of Intelligence, Hector’s difficulty in philosophy will not negatively affect his future. Sternberg would instead focus on elements of successful intelligence like Hector’s involvement and contribution as an individual, as opposed to relying on intelligence measured by tests.
Intelligence failure was one of the main reasons why the Tet offensive happened. The allies undergo a failure of intelligence before Tet, a failure that helped plan the stages for changes in the strategies of the US. The four parts of intelligence are crucial in determining the actions of the enemy. The four tasks consist of collection of information, the analysis of the information, the decision to respond to a warning issued in the analytical stage, dissemination of the order to respond to the field co...
The axial skeleton is part of the skeleton where there is bones at the top and bottom of a vertebrate. The human skeleton has 80 bones and is made of 6 parts. The axial skeleton has 2 responsibilities. The first is to support and defend the organs in the dorsal and ventral cavities. The second is to make a surface for the muscles.
“Once you get exposed to what’s really happening in the world, and other people’s realities, you just can’t ever not know,” states Angelina Jolie in her profile piece in the New York Times (Buckley 2017). Statements like these unveil the reality of an immense privilege. Jolie is unlike the average white woman in America; the interview with New York Times fundamentally shows how her skin color paired with her class and immense wealth allow her to excel through some of the hardest troughs of life. She continues further with her statement saying, “you can’t ever wake up and pretend it’s not happening… your entire life shifts” (Buckley 2017). While Jolie maneuvers through her daily life in the confines and comfort of her Los Angeles Estate, she
Intelligence tests have been developed by scientists as a tool to categorize army recruits or analyze school children. But still discussing what intelligence is, academics have a difficult time defining what intelligence tests should measure. According to the American researcher Thorndike, intelligence is only that what intelligence tests claim it is (Comer, Gould, & Furnham, 2013). Thus, depending on what is being researched in the test and depending on the scientist’s definition of intelligence the meaning of the word intelligence may vary a lot. This essay will discuss what intelligence is in order to be able to understand the intelligence theories and aims of intelligence tests.
The human body is made up of 12 different systems. Each system has a separate function while some do work together. One system is called skeletal system which is to serve as a support the body, mineral storage, energy storage (fat), blood cell production, movement (leverage), and protect the internal organs. (Martini, 112). With the help of the muscular system, it keeps us moving and makes us to do tasks that we don’t think about like swinging the arms while running. The average adult skeleton has 206 bones that are joined together by ligaments (bone to bone) and tendons (muscles to bone) to make a protective framework for the tissues and muscles. The vital organs are also protected by the skeleton, brain is covered with skull just like heart
...these intelligence failures, more emphasis is now placed on the creation of intelligence products used on the battlefield. All possible enemy courses of actions are now red teamed in an attempt to produce a much accurate analytical product.
As mentioned before, it seems that intelligence and policy cannot live with and without each other (Betts, 2002). The intelligence community and policymakers need to ...
The skeletal system is an anatomical body system which consists of all the bones and joints in our bodies. In total, an adult body entails 206 distinct bones, arranged in the axial skeleton (80) and the appendicular skeleton (126). The latter division has bones in the limbs, pelvic girdle and the shoulder girdle, whilst the rest of the bones belong to the axial division. It’s a very important system therefore it has a few main functions. The most obvious is that it gives the body its rigid shape, which makes it relevant to other body functions like breathing, which is helped by the rib cage expanding to accommodate the movement of the lungs. Other functions include support to ensure that organs
In order to see how artificial intelligence plays a role on today’s society, I believe it is important to dispel any misconceptions about what artificial intelligence is. Artificial intelligence has been defined many different ways, but the commonality between all of them is that artificial intelligence theory and development of computer systems that are able to perform tasks that would normally require a human intelligence such as decision making, visual recognition, or speech recognition. However, human intelligence is a very ambiguous term. I believe there are three main attributes an artificial intelligence system has that makes it representative of human intelligence (Source 1). The first is problem solving, the ability to look ahead several steps in the decision making process and being able to choose the best solution (Source 1). The second is the representation of knowledge (Source 1). While knowledge is usually gained through experience or education, intelligent agents could very well possibly have a different form of knowledge. Access to the internet, the la...
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In many ways Christmas is similar to Thanksgiving in the way we celebrate it. We switch sides, sometimes Christmas is at our house, tons of food is made and we play games. Depending on what side of the family we’re spending Christmas with, there’s a theme, for example, about two or three years ago we spent Christmas with my mom’s side of the family and it was a pajama party and last Christmas we spent with my dad’s side the theme was ugly Christmas sweaters. Every year no matter where we spend Christmas, we always have to get some of my great grandma’s amazing and delicious Champurrado. She makes Champurrado every single year, she won’t tell anyone how she makes it for some reason, but her Champurrado is like heaven in a cup. On both sides of my family,it’s tradition for us get together on Christmas Eve and we have dinner, watch movies, play games, and even take naps, all until midnight and that’s when we open our presents. Also, on both sides, the adults do White Elephant and sometimes depending on what the majority vote is, they’ll do a secret santa exchange. The only thing my mom’s side of the family does differently than my dad’s, is that prior to getting together on Christmas Eve, the adults put each kid’s name in a hat and each person draws a name, and the name they draw is the kid they have to buy a gift for, and they’ll say the least or most amount of money they can spend on that gift.
The modern Military Intelligence professional needs to be an expert in his trade. Core competencies include commanding and controlling Military Intelligence Soldiers and combined armed forces during combat and intelligence gathering operations. Additionally, an MI officer must be able to coordinate employment of Military Intelligence Soldiers at all levels of command, from platoon to battalion and higher in U.S. and multinational operations. Further, an MI officer needs to be competent in all levels of intelligence gathering, particularly if they are an All-Source Intelligence Officer (35D). These fields include Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), among many other types and disciplines of intelligence work. Lastly, an officer must be technically competent in what his or her soldiers do.