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The second step of the intelligence process is analysis. Intelligence analysts pull together information gathered from many sources to produce all-source finished intelligence that examines local, national, and global issues that may influence foreign threats. They assess scientific, technical, tactical, diplomatic, military, organizational, or political changes in combination with factors such as geography, demographics, and industrial capabilities to anticipate and respond to overseas dangers as well as assess enemy capabilities and vulnerabilities. The third step of the intelligence process is production and dissemination. Once analysts have made their determinations, they compose finished intelligence reports for both military and civilian decisionmakers. Intelligence officers then disseminate these products to relevant policymakers who decide on a detailed plan of action. One of the intelligence officer’s primary duties is to anticipate the intelligence needs of decisionmakers and react accordingly, assigning projects or responding to specific requests for information. Intelligence officers often work very closely with policymakers and warfighters to anticipate information requirements and to more sharply hone the finished intelligence provided by analysts. Defense Intelligence Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency: A History Military Intelligence in U.S. History Military intelligence is an activity that stretches back to the colonial period of American history. The scope and practice of military intelligence has expanded and contracted over time as need, resources, and intelligence philosophy changed through the decades. Nevertheless, military intelligence has played a major role in many of the key moments in American history. The American military intelligence system during the Revolutionary War was an active and effective instrument that helped counterbalance British numerical and operational superiority. After the war, however, successive presidential administrations and Congress allowed intelligence organizations to wither and disappear. It would be nearly a century before organized military intelligence was formally established in the Military Services. While decisionmakers generally recognized the importance of good intelligence during wartime, they also believed that it was unnecessary in times of peace. It was not until the aftermath of World War II, with its catastrophic intelligence failure at Pearl Harbor, that U.S. policymakers accepted the concept of a centralized peacetime military intelligence organization. As world war turned to Cold War, a sophisticated, global intelligence apparatus became necessary to counter and contain the spread of communism. With questions about the value of peacetime military intelligence work settled, policymakers turned their attention to how that work should be carried out. At first, military intelligence activities were fragmented among the various service branches, but throughout the 1950s, momentum built for the establishment of a centralized military intelligence agency. The establishment of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1961 unified the various intelligence activities of the Armed Services. Though its success was not always assured, the concept behind DIA was a sound one. The Agency provided essential intelligence on nearly all of the Cold War’s major events, and continues to support policymakers and warfighters in the Global War on Terror in the twenty-first century. A History
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