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THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY  is being challenged as never before in its  history.  In 2001, the cry of “count the dots” echoed through the length and breadth of this country.  The ‘will’ the nation possessed then has morphed into “wont/don’t”, now.  The following is a brief look at Military Intelligence and its development from the 19th Century, through the 20th centuries.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

INTELLIGENCE has been defined as the art of "knowing one's enemies," and military intelligence is as old as war itself. However, the development of an intelligence organization within the United States Army is comparatively recent. The Army did not acquire a permanent peacetime intelligence organization until 1885, and the oldest of today's military intelligence units can trace its lineage only back to the eve of World War II. The Army did not formally recognize intelligence as a distinct professional discipline until 1962, when it finally created the Army Intelligence and Security Branch, the predecessor of today's Military Intelligence Branch. The Military Intelligence Corps, which incorporated all military intelligence personnel and units into a single large regiment, did not come into existence until 1987. Although the intelligence organization within the U.S. Army was slow to develop, it has become increasingly important both as a combat multiplier in war and as a source of information for the nation's decision makers in peace. As the nation and its Army move into an information age, military intelligence will assume an even greater significance. To tell the military intelligence story in as much detail as security regulations currently in force allow, the U.S. Army Center of Military History has worked in collaboration with the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) to produce this volume of the Army Lineage Series. It is intended both to bring a relatively unknown part of the Army heritage to the attention of the general public and to foster unit esprit de corps among the thousands of military intelligence specialists now serving in the ranks of America's Army. 

Addendum:
DoD Activates Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center: The Department of Defense activated the Defense Counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Center and simultaneously disestablished the Department's Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA). The new center, under the direction of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), combines CIFA resources and responsibilities with longstanding DIA CI and HUMINT capabilities.  "The realignment of CIFA's functions and resources into DIA strengthens the close historical and operational relationship between counterintelligence and HUMINT," said Army Maj. Gen. Theodore Nicholas, the center's new director. "Integration under one organization will result in greater collaboration in operational and support areas where both disciplines overlap." The Defense CI and HUMINT Center was created in response to internal DoD assessments which identified substantial benefits of more closely aligning DoD CIFA and DIA HUMINT and CI functions. It is also consistent with DoD strategic guidance and the Defense Intelligence Strategy.    More to follow.....                                                     

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