Introduction Military operations require extensive intelligence support in order to be effective. In the past, Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB; US Army, 1994) was the most common intelligence tool used to gain an understanding of the landscape. Given that IPB is most effective with a conventional warfare and the previous generation of military doctrine…
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Intelligence in Combating Terrorism (ICT)
Introduction Intelligence in Combating Terorrism (ICT), also known by its course identifier 3C-F14/244-F8, is a course produced by the US Army Intelligence Center and School located at Fort Huachuca, AZ. (US Army Intelligence School, n.d.) It is a ten unit course that aims to teach the basics of how to leverage intelligence to understand and…
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Learning Arabic
Arabic is a language of national security importance. The US Government considers Arabic a “critical language” and provides additional funding for students to learn the language in addition to training Arabic linguists through the Defense Language Institute (DLI) and other options to increase the amount of Arabic language speakers. Arabic is classified as a Category…
Learning Spanish
Spanish is a popular language around the world. There are approximately 560 million speakers (first and second language) of Spanish in North, Central and South America, as well as Europe. Spanish is one of the easiest languages for English speakers to learn because the pronunciation is simple and there are few false cognates. According to…