Army revises functional concept of intelligence: The Army is coming to grips with the notion that with a rapidly changing world and threat environment, intelligence must adapt in kind.
The Army is taking direct aim at intelligence practices with major revisions to the publication of Training and Doctrine Command’s “U.S. Army Functional Concept of Intelligence 2020-2040,” dated for February 2017.
The document is a revision to the previous iteration published in 2010 that covered an applicability period from 2016-2028.
“Enemies will employ countermeasures to avoid detection and cloud efforts to develop situational understanding; therefore, Army forces must be prepared to employ multi-disciplinary intelligence, simultaneously through multiple domains, and operate under conditions of uncertainty,” Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who at the time of the document’s publication was the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, wrote in the forward. “This concept serves as a foundation for developing future intelligence capabilities and helps Army leaders thinkclearly about future armed conflict, learnabout the future through the Army’s campaign of learning, analyzefuture capability gaps and identify opportunities, and implementinterim solutions to improve current and future force combat effectiveness.”
