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Background “Continued social and political instability fueled by pandemics, rampant urbanization, and resource competition over food, water, fuel, and market commodities, will provide ideal conditions for social confrontation, violent struggle, and eventual societal disintegration in many parts of the world. This disintegration requires Joint SOF to prepare for long-term local, regional, and global irregular warfare in areas of strategic interest. […] “The global nature as well as the local and regional focus of these threats obliges Joint SOF to apply new concepts of agile communications and information operations, intelligence, sustainment, mobility, organization, and operational employment. […] Hostile groups and individuals will continue to make use of failed and failing states to provide sanctuaries and bases for training, planning and logistical support. Populations in ungoverned or poorly governed areas will serve as recruitment pools and provide willing audiences for anti-Western or anti-American sentiment. As potential sanctuaries continue to spread globally, Joint SOF cultural and language preparation needs to become global in scope. […]” Excerpt of Capstone Concept for Special Operations (October 2006)	The Intelligence Process
Government Documents October 5^th, 2009 - Counterinsurgency Operations - JP 3-24 Report by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (1,3 MB) June 16^th, 2009 - Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment - JP 2-01.3 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (3,7 MB) March 4^th, 2009 - Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for Police Intelligence Operations (PIO) Military Doctrine by the U.S. Army (1,6 MB) February 13^th, 2008 - Joint Operations - JP 3-0 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (2,8 MB) February 6^th, 2008 - Detainee Operations - JP 3-63 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (1,2 MB) September 11^th, 2007 - Irregular Warfare Joint Operating Concept Military Doctrine by the U.S. Department of Defense (1,5 MB) August 1^st, 2007 - Irregular Warfare - AFDD 2-3 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Air Force July 12^th, 2007 - Homeland Defense Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff May 3^rd, 2007 - Joint Interdiction - JP 3-03 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff May 3^rd, 2007 - U.S. Army Intelligence Activities - Army Regulation 381-10 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Department of the Army April 26^th, 2007 - Joint Special Operations/Task Force Operations - JP 3-05.1 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff April 19^th, 2007 - Operations Security (OPSEC) - Army Regulation 530-1 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Department of the Army April 17^th, 2007 - U.S. Special Operations Command, History 1987 - 2007 Biography by OCOM History and Research Office, MacDill Air Force Base (33 MB) April 2007 - United States Special Operations Command 2007 Posture Statement Report by the U.S. Special Operations Command March 22^nd, 2007 - Geospatial Intelligence Support to Joint Operations - 2-03 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff January 26^th, 2007 - Counter-Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations - 2-1.8 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Air Force January 25^th, 2007 - Electronic Warfare - Joint Publication - JP 3-13.1 Military Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff October 2006 - Capstone Concept for Special Operations Military Doctrine by the U.S. Special Operations Command September 11^th, 2006 - Counterland Operations - Doctrine 2-1.3 Doctrine by the U.S. Air Force June 7^th, 2006 - Manual for Countering Irregular Threats Manual by the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Command June 2006 - Small-Unit Leaders’ Guide to Counterinsurgency Manual by the U.S. Marine Corps November 22^nd, 2005 - Military Intelligence - U.S. Army Intelligence Activities - 381-10 Army Regulation by the U.S. Department of the Army November 2005 - Joint Forward Operations Base (JFOB) Force Protection Handbook Handbook by the U.S. Department of the Army (3,4 MB) October 7^th, 2004 - Joint and National Intelligence Support to Military Operations - JP 2-01 Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Forces Command July 8^th, 2004 - Joint Doctrine for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction - JP 3-40 Doctrine by the U.S. Joint Forces Command
Image Credits Background 1) The Intelligence Process - Diagram from the publication Geospatial Intelligence Support to Joint Operations by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, p. 37, March 22^nd, 2007;
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