Intelligence, Surveillance, And Reconnaissance

Surveillance is a mechanism of social control which involves watching and otherwise monitoring the movements, activities, conversations, and associations of people to prevent them from engaging in wrongdoing; to catch those who are engaged in wrongdoing; and to ensure that the public is protected from wrongdoers. Electronic monitoring, interception of letters and email, and telephone tapping are all examples of surveillance activities. An example of surveillance is Price Chopper putting up security cameras all over their premises. There are times where I have to go into Price Chopper late at night because either my sisters want different snacks or the stock of food in my household is low. I feel safer parking in the parking lot knowing that

Domestic terrorism is like cancer that eats away at the very values and beliefs of the American people. Instead of combining efforts to peacefully and legally enact change, domestic terrorists take the law and actions into their own hands. Groups such as eco-terrorists use firebombing to make their point that the Earth will be protected at all costs. That cost even meant human lives. Militia groups feel the same way. Their goal is not about saving the Earth but rather to change the government. They see it as too weak to handle the needs of the America people. These individuals use modified firearms, explosives, and survival tactics. Law abiding citizens are not defenseless, the FBI and NCIRC work together to help keep America safe.

Intelligence in this day in age is a vital component of a countries security. The newest proposal increases intelligence spending between 2 and 3 billion dollars, a total adding to nearly $35 billion. In addition to military enhancement, the FBI and other law enforcement/intelligence agencies will also be included in this proposal. A new system has been proposed by President Bush that all information be shared among all agencies. DoD, FBI, and the Department of Counterterrorist Center have drawn closer together to create a Terrorist Threat Integration Center to evaluate information blended from all sources associated with terrorism and to act upon those findings accordingly.

The C.I.A. also involves itself in the deployment of high-leverage technology for informational purposes. The C.I.A. aslo involves itself in the development and research of such technologies. The C.I.A. works as a source of intelligence on topics of concern. The C.I.A. also works with other intelligence organizations to insure

We deploy globally alongside war fighters and interagency partners to defend America’s national security interests.” [4] The Defense Intelligence Agency is always represented no matter where the military presence is located. They work side by side with military soldiers ensuring assisting with analysis and helping soldiers out in any way they are able to help out. The agency is often confused with law enforcement agencies, but they are not the only agencies this occurs too. Other foreign intelligence organizations have the same issue as well. The Department of Defense (DoD) who is over the Defense Intelligence Agency is in the public eye. Now that the public has much more awareness of their existence, the friction between the organizations is more prominently. “Defense Intelligence Agency is an all-source defense agency designed to prevent strategic surprise and deliver a decision advantage to war fighters, defense planners, and policymakers.” [5] The agency has multiple roles they are responsible for. Some of those roles include collection and analysis of defense-related foreign political, economic, industrial, geographic and medical and health intelligence. [6] Being able to be aggressive during the collection process and being analytically precise, it provides an advantage when making tough decisions for war fighters and the policymakers. This will allow the counter intelligence to be aggressive as well. By counter intelligence being aggressive policymakers along with the war fighters will be confident that the right decisions are being made on time and producing results. This is a critical part for the soldiers on the ground having to conduct these missions the Defense Intelligence Agency come up with and believe

Surveillance is an observation of a person or group of people. The government may use surveillance to track who people do like phone calls, internet access,

Regionally Aligned Forces is also about collaborating with other government and nongovernmental agencies in disaster relief and humanitarian operations. The Army has even expanded the RAF partnership to include the private sector and academia

The United States (US) Army states that the “purpose of intelligence is to support commanders and staffs in gaining situational understanding of threats, terrain and weather, and civil considerations. Intelligence supports the planning, preparing, execution, and assessment of operations” (Army, 2012). Accurate and non-biased intelligence is critical in developing a mission in the battlefield. However, inaccurate or biased intelligence reporting leads to failure. Intelligence failures have been an ongoing battle within the Department of Defense (DoD).

From the early age of airpower development in the United States, airpower theorists, and advocates believed and prophesized, that airpower can win the war by itself. Turning back to the age prior to the independence of the United States Air Force (USAF) as a service, airpower advocates emphasized that bomber will always get through and that it will produce decisive blow to the enemy and win the war. Moreover, they argued that airpower alone could win the war quickly without the need to employ other services, that it is cheaper because bombers replace large force employment costs and precisely hitting only important targets avoids collateral damage. That promise of the early airpower advocates continued to be the core belief of the new independent United States Air Force after 1947. Looking its promise over the past 70 years the airpower gradually advanced toward its fulfillment and with rapid technology advances, that the USAF is highly dependent on, airpower finally achieved its promise. The airpower proved to end wars more quickly and save lives of solders, to cost less in order to achieve military and political objectives, and to avoid collateral damage with its precision capabilities. Nevertheless, implications of achievement of promise can be that airpower can be used as a mean of political objectives that can severely limit or misuse airpower’s capabilities.

Surveillance is observing and

US Military Intelligence has developed Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) in order to analyze intelligence and utilize multiple intelligence assets i.e. (human intelligence, signal intelligence, open source intelligence,

Aerial Surveillance- This is an effective method of observation performed through airplanes and helicopters. A warrant is not necessarily required for aerial surveillance because privacy from the air cannot be expected. The requirements for warantless aerial surveillance are that: (1) The aircraft fly at an altitude permitted by FAA regulations, (2) The flight be conducted in a physically nonintrusive manner, and (3) The flight altitude not be unusually low for certain areas. Optical aid is also used in

Any slowdown in the operations due to structural reform can eliminate the competitive aspect between the agency, and negatively help to create errors, and not perfect, confirmed reports to the customers or decision makers. In the intelligence community and all the sixteen agencies and departments has a big ratio of private sector contractors, all these contractors can provide an enormous service to plan, collect, process, analyze, disseminate intelligence in the community. The private sector can provide services like confirm information, and structural support, nonetheless to mention the information technology, and direct support in tactical, operational, and strategic level missions. Redundancy in these cases can be working with the intelligence community to avoid intelligence failure in the future and enhance the process to predict any attacks. Sharing information, better communication, a structural enhancement will all add positive development to the intelligence community in redundancy issue. In the process of producing intelligence

Threats will evolve which will push Air Defense to evolve as well. Technology will continue to change, become more available and decrease in cost allowing threats to spread to the four corners of the earth. The world is unpredictable and Air Defense needs to be on the forefront of technology. The Integrated Fire Protection Capability Increment 2-Intercept or the IFPC Inc 2-I, is a perfect example of the future of Air Defense. This system is designed to protect Soldiers, artillery weapons, cruise missiles, aircraft and command aerial systems to include motors and rockets. Another new system air defense is developing is the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense (AIAMD). This system is technologically advanced, it is designed to unify air defense, by providing the ability to connect various air defense weapons and systems to a single command and control network, allowing a single control to all the various weapons and sensors that form an air defense network through a single battle command

In conclusion, air power has been utilized immensely to aide in achieving national strategic objectives in support