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The Post-Cold War Challenge Credit: U.S. Department of Defense 32 Defense Intelligence Agency
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War brought major changes and challenges to the U.S. Intelligence Community. National security policy, focused on containing the spread of Communism for nearly five decades, was fundamentally altered, compelling DIA to examine its priorities in the new era. Drastic cuts in funding and personnel, part of the so-called “peace dividend,” forced DIA to restructure its directorates in order to operate more efficiently and with fewer resources. This period of reevaluation and restructuring in the Intelligence Community as a whole began after the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, and the end of the Cold War. During this period, DIA emphasized improved management of intelligence production DoD-wide as resource reductions once again threatened Agency objectives and depleted staffing. This new emphasis enhanced flexibility, improved cooperation with the Service intelligence organizations, sharply reduced management overhead, and returned to intelligence basics by focusing on the areas of collection, production, and management. Throughout the world, meanwhile, defense attachés increased their work of observing military conditions, evaluating developments in their assigned countries, and advising the ambassador. Events of the early 1990s compelled a widespread review of DIA’s role, as the nation confronted a different set of challenges in a new era of diverse regional conflicts. The defining mission for DIA came in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. DIA set up an extensive, 24-hour crisis management cell designed to tailor nationallevel intelligence support for the coalition forces assembled to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait. At Credit: DIA History Office Collection the beginning of Operation DESERT STORM, 2,000 Agency personnel participated in the intelligence effort. The Joint Intelligence Center (JIC) that DIA established in the Pentagon to integrate and coordinate intelligence produced by various agencies was the locus of this work. (Above) Joint task forces working complex Balkans issues were responsible for providing intelligence information that was brief, clear, accurate, and timely. (Left) Soldiers inspect a downed SCUD missile. During Operation DESERT STORM, DIA took part in the difficult “SCUD hunting” operations. A History
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