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PART ONE
NATURE OF TERRAIN INTELLIGENCE
CHAPTER 1
GENERAL
1. Purpose
This manual explains how terrain intelligence is produced. It is
designed as a reference and training text for all personnel engaged
in the production of terrain studies. This manual also serves as a
guide for commanders and their staffs in understanding the purpose,
scope, capabilities, limitations, and applications of terrain analysis.
2. Scope
This manual serves as a specific guide in all phases of the production
and use of terrain intelligence. It defines terrain intelligence
and explains the intelligence process of collection, evaluation, interpretation
of information, and dissemination of the finished intelligence
as this procedure applies to the terrain. It explains the relationship
of the terrain study, produced by the engineer, to the terrain estimate,
derived from it by Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, (G2).
Sources of information are discussed, including their relative value
and the manner of their exploitation. Detailed instruction is given
on the description of terrain features and on the analysis of individual
features and overall terrain in terms of their military characteristics.
Guidance is furnished on current doctrine for the preparation of the
terrain study and its component parts, such as the cross-country
movement map. The material presented herein is applicable without
modification to both nuclear and nonnuclear warfare.
3. Relation to Other Manuals
The material presented in this manual is closely related to FM
5-30, FM 30-5, and TM 5-545. Other manuals of the FM 30-series
cover specialized intelligence activities. FM's 100-5, 100-15, and
101-5 cover intelligence in general staff activities and in the plans
and operations of large units. Manuals of the 5-series contain detailed
information concerning the operation of engineer troop units
and their intelligence agencies.
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