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A MODEL UNIT

PUSHING DOWN INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITY FROM BRIGADE LEVEL
OPTION A: Military Intelligence (Ml) Battalion
The MI Bn provides a focused approach for Bde Int staff as it is a fully contained organization
with specialized companies, the CI Company, the C&E Company and the I&E company. All
these companies provide a better situational understanding of the Bde Commander by providing
support to HUMINT, (Tactical HUMINT teams), conducting intelligence preparation of the
battlefield, interrogation and document/equipment exploitation operations, support to targeting
and battle damage assessment/restrike options, developing threat disposition estimate. The
Companies further have MI enabled platoons which on account of being near the ground can
collect and provide timely threat intelligence data. Each platoon may be specialized in its own
way; one can be a tactical HUMINT platoon , HUMINT platoon, one an ISR analysis platoon all
being controlled by the Company headquarters element which also interfaces with the Company
commander and staff and laterally with the other specialty MI companies under the MI
Bn.Fusing of intelligence data from the platoons and lateral companies with those that are
pushed down from higher HQ on requisition gives a far better threat assessment. Ultimately
combat intelligence, target information and otrher satisfied priority intelligence requirements are
at the hands of the Commander for necessary action.
The MI company in support provides-
 Communications intercept, direction finding (DF), and ECM.
 CI.
 Interrogation.
 Ground surveillance.
Personnel to staff the Intelligence Section, These soldiers conduct-
-Collection Management.
-All-source analysis and reporting.
-Dissemination.
-Technical control and tasking.
-Multidiscipline force protection and OPSEC support.
The TEB Unit provides
1. CI
2. interrogation of prisoners
3. ground-based SIGINT and EW support
4. and LRS support to corps operations
CLIC
Under the command and supervision of the Inf Bn STAFF INT OFFICER Int officer
intelligence platoons can be created. From among the Bn soldiers according to capability,
availability and performance should be selected.
There wil be two echelons in each platoon.
(SECTION A supports Bn HQ.The Bn Int HQ Section will be composed of one Int officer,one
intelligence specialist of the rank of JCO, and 3 enlisted soldiers. The Int officer can serve both
as staff officer for the Bn Command and also as Commander of the operating forces in the
Company. He is responsible for analyzing intelligence and planning deployment and tactical
employment of ISR assets. The intelligence specialist can be a ground recon specialist whose
duties involve observe and report on enemy activity and other information of military importance
in close operations.
(Close operations are operations that are within the commander's area of operation (AO) in
his battle space . Most operations that are projected in close areas are usually against hostile
forces in immediate contact and are often the decisive actions. It requires speed and mobility to
rapidly concentrate overwhelming combat power at the critical time and place and exploit
success. Dominated by fire support, the combined elements of the ground and air elements
conduct maneuver warfare to enhance the effects of their fires and their ability to maneuver. As
they maneuver to gain positions of advantage over the enemy, combined arms forces deliver fires
to disrupt the enemy’s ability to interfere with that maneuver.)
SECTION B is the CLIC.Colocated with the Company. (One intelligence analyst and five
enlisted infantrymen.)
Each company of the Bn should select and train at least 6 personnel.
The formation of this platoon will facilitate initial and sustainment training by ensuring
consistency throughout the battalion and eliminating additional training requirements for the
companies. It will also ensure standardization in processes and reporting formats, and further
promote lateral communication among the CLICs. Armed with the BLIP the Commander now
has his own organic intelligence unit which will provide him additional support apart from the
intelligence feeds as a result of his request for information from higher ups.Moreover and more
important the BLIPs of all the companies in the Bnb conduct lateral communication , exchanging
combat intelligence and other information, thus keeping abreast of latest developments and
enemy tactics which the other company is confronting and the tactics, techniques and procedures
employed by the company with an element of success. With the passage of time the initial
training given to say the enlisted soldiers or the intelligence specialist helps in sustainment
training ,the training a byproduct of the operations the soldier is involved with without resorting
to tutored training. Soon the BLIP transforms itself into a robust intelligence unit of the Bn,
Company Level Intelligence Cells
Coming to the CLIC level we have an organic capability to acquire combat intelligence directloy
at the ground level. Actionable intelligence is needed desperately by our fighting forces but the
time delay from sensor to shooter(sensors on receipt of request for information collect the data
matching given coordinates, pass it on to the intelligence section for interpretation who in turn
sends it to his higher up for evaluation and dissemination to the ground unit; in case of
map/imagery obtained by aerial surveillance the time delay is much more) is often so much that
despite accurate target nomination the operation slips out of hand. With the CLIC at his disposal
the commander now can obtain, analyse and act on readily available combat intelligence without
having to wait for intelligence feeds.C2, intelligence and operations are hereby synchronized and
integration achieved successfully. That too at the lowest level. The CLIC is supervised by the
company commander. The two sections of CLIC , collection and analysis and production are
looked after by the officer in charge , usually a JCO and there will be two soldiers , one from
each section to function as intelligence watch and are assigned to the company combat ops
center.
Functions/responsibilities:
CLIC O-I-C: Reports to Company Comander,assists the watch officer in operations situation
development (common tactical ops picture),managing and supervising CLIC ops,interacting with
adjacent units , lower units and higher echelons and utilizing the intelligence flow.
If required, the CLICs now have the capacity to surge intelligence trained soldiers to
support operations such as cordon and searches and raids.
After an area of operations is identified inhabited by an asymmetric enemy in a complex terrain
with weak transportation and logistical infrastructure. We need to deploy an interim combat team
complete with HUMINT/, CI/. SIGINT assets which will act as an early combat team, mounted
infantry organization with the capability to rapidly assess the environment, physical terrain,
community, cultural and political and conduct an intelligence preparation of the battlefield by
assessing the enemy’s strength, capabilities, disposition, TOE thus enabling the striking force to
project itself before deployment. The primary intent here is to develop a situational
understanding of an unknown area inhabited by an enemy against the backdrop of distributed,
asymmetric, nonlinear simultaneous operations. Here the problem is to determine the OB of an
enemy that doesn’t have a conventional standing force nor is easily identifiable. We don’t see
any typical military structure, units, rear and forward areas or logistical networks characteristic
of conventional enemy forces. It is a big question how to deploy ISR assets for collecting
intelligence or conducting reconnaissance or for that matter determining the center of gravity of
the enemy.
LRS units provide reliable HUMINT against second echelon and follow-on forces and deep
targets. LRS units conduct stationary surveillance and very limited reconnaissance. They deploy
deep into the enemy area to observe and report enemy dispositions, movement and activities, and
battlefield conditions. They arc not equipped or trained to conduct direct-action missions.
PROJECTING COMBAT POWER WITH ORGANIC ISR CAPABILITY
Reason for creation of interim team:
Without sending in the interim combat team to gain a situational understanding it is totally
impracticable to deploy the striking forces. What we need is a interim combat force with
reconnaissance, surveillance and target nomination capabilities—all these facilitated by an
organic MI company with organic intelligence assets.
The recce platoon, in addition to reconnaissance and surveillance should also engage in
HUMINT activities for thorough situational understanding. The situation in asymmetric warfare
is different. Here the recce platoon can conduct HUMINT operations. The reconnaissance
platoon should be equipped with CI capability. This heightens its HUMNINT collection ability.
The HUMINT teams (4 teams) are in effect Tactical HUMINT Teams each with 3 HUMINT
collectors and one CI agent. Once deployed, the teams report their information to an operational
management team (OMT), which collates intelligence data gathered by the tactical teams. The
information is then passed on to the brigade INT section for further analysis and integration into
the brigade's collection plan.
C2:
The reconnaissance platoon HQ and the HUMINT platoon HQ both should contain one CI
NCO.The reconnaissance squads each should have one CI soldier. Thus at the lowest tactical
level organic CI capability with the deployment of maximum possible CI soldiers is hereby
achieved thus increasing significantly the reconnaissance troops HUMINT collection capability.
We can optimally have in the recce patrol 3 six-man squads, each having a CI soldier.
HUMINT OR MI BN IDEA
INTERIM COMBAT TEAM WITH ORGANIC INT AND R&S CAPABILITY – TO
PROJECT FORWARD OF AO
Operations Battalion
Collection Management Section
Production Section ASPD & OB Teams
BDA & TGT Team
CI Team
Single Source Teams.
MASINT Team
SIGINT Team
HUMINT Team
IMINT Team
Corps Military Intelligence Support Element
Intelligence Support Elements
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