Ch. 7 Intelligence at and Across Echelons

Part Three: Fighting for Intelligence

• Fighting for intelligence requires leveraging national to tactical information collection, analysis, and PED capabilities to overcome challenges posed by threats.
• No single unit can collect all relevant information needed; a holistic portrayal from the G-2/S-2, in coordination with other staff members, is needed to provide situational understanding of the threat during combat operations.

Chapter 7: Intelligence at and Across Echelons, Section I - Overview

• Army intelligence support is facilitated by an architecture that synchronizes intelligence across echelons, from national to battalion levels.
• Intelligence products, policy, and services flow from national to battalion levels and, on occasion, from tactical to national levels.
• Figure 7-1 illustrates intelligence staff and MI support at each echelon.

Chapter 7: Intelligence at and Across Echelons, Section II - National, Joint, and U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command Support

• Echelons above corps (national, joint, theater army, and field army) contribute to the intelligence enterprise.
• INSCOM is a key Army echelon above corps assisting in intelligence support.
• INSCOM supports combatant commands and provides various capabilities (including MIB-Ts and functional commands) tailored for each combatant command.

Chapter 7: Intelligence at and Across Echelons, Section III - Fighting for Intelligence Across Echelons

• Fighting for intelligence at one echelon is difficult, but fighting across echelons is complex.
• Key capabilities include authorities, authorizations, oversight, different collection capabilities and all-source analytic centers, organizations, and units.

Chapter 7: Intelligence at and Across Echelons, Section IV - Theater Army

• ASCCs (Army service component commands) can be theater armies; they support joint force commanders (JFCs) by providing organizational elements and capabilities for unified action.
• Theater army G-2s advise the commander on intelligence and synchronize intelligence operations across all echelons.
• Theater armies aim to establish positions of advantage for U.S. forces and their allies against varied threat levels.

Chapter 7: Intelligence at and Across Echelons, Section V - Corps

• Corps are the Army's most versatile formations.
• Corps headquarters are organized, trained, and equipped for large-scale combat operations.
• Corps integrate joint capabilities at the appropriate echelon, defeat enemy long- and mid-range fires capabilities, maintain tempo, enable divisions to focus on close and deep operations, and expand division efforts to consolidate gains.
• Corps assist in intelligence support to targeting and combat assessment.

Chapter 7: Intelligence at and Across Echelons, Section VI - Division

• Divisions are the lowest tactical echelon that employs capabilities from multiple domains to achieve convergence during large-scale combat operations.
• Division G-2s advise the commander on intelligence, assist the commander in synchronizing intelligence operations, and supervise the intelligence cell.
• Division intelligence cells have three principal staff sections to support current and future operations.

Chapter 7: Intelligence at and Across Echelons, Section VII - Brigade Combat Team

• A BCT is the Army's primary combined arms, close-combat force.
• BCTs are the principal ground maneuver units of a division.
• The BCT intelligence cell is the organization in the CP that answers directly to the BCT S-2 and assists commanders with tactical requirements.