The Combat Intelligence Cycle

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S2: That's great that you're into tools. Here's how to build something with them.

I love your work , thank you for delivering to the citizens!

Another fantastic video! Always educational and informative! Keep them coming!!

I can’t even listen to anything combat related anymore. At least not as it relates to Afghanistan. I’ve spent way more than the better half of the last 14 years there. Active duty and pmc. Who gives a shit about anything anymore? Not only did we fail, but we left the enemy way better off than most first world armies. So I don’t give a shit about any fucking ODA teams, the agency, making contact, breaking contact…it was all a farce. Not to mention the whole mil side has turned in to its own cool guy culture. All of this is pure bullshit. None of it matters. Have a family, homeschool your kids. Read the word of God.
Forget all this crap. Because that’s what it is.

Excellent explanation. Your invaluable first hand experience is validated in your summation. Would make mandatory viewing for my NCOES (all levels) also 1SG and Battle Staff NCO course...If I were King for a day. SGM (R)

Please 🙏 tell us more about structural analysis techniques.

Are there really guys running around in the woods doing recon?

Also helpful: the trusty GUHOR stick.

It's surprising how much of this carries over to security work. Something simple like placing a camera does you no good if you don't know what it's supposed to be looking for, if your dispatchers don't know what's important, or if they can't provide specific enough info to the guy responding to what the camera saw.

I think your onion site is down. is there a new link?

This, especially the second half of the video was my bread and butter as a c-ied collection manager on my second deployment. Excellent vid, keep it up!

Map-making is great basic Intel practice, you really get an idea of where your resources are, where people are and aren't, zones of similar elevation, landmarks, ect. (I did this as a kid incase I had to run from police but it would definitely help in a shtf scenario )

Great video. Thanks!

OiC: Here's a PIR for ya. Get me an SIR immediately.
Me: IDGAF about that. What's for lunch?

As a Cav Scout we always prepared multiple plans for various scenarios that we might encounter even being sent out. Like platoon level planning.
For example if we are circling in on the target building and an attack is sprung on our left flank from buildings 3, 4, or 5 and it appears we are outnumbered 10:1 or greater then we all knew that we need to collapse in on the target building immediately to turn and use that as a defensive structure while waiting QRF whereas if we're attacked from buildings 11 or 15 then first squad pulls back towards building 4 and second squad circles around the ambush element.

Obviously but everything could be planned for but in 13 months of combat deployment we never once had a scenario pop off that the unit hesitated in the slightest to respond to.

Not sure now looking back if that was actually platoon level planning or stuff that came down from above. But I absolutely loved how much info we had to go on on missions with.

This video is spot on, as both a Former Aircrew Sensor Operator and flight tech, along with being a UAS payload operator. Had a SAFIRE event over Iraq and probably a few others over Astan we didnt even detect

I’ve missed you. We need a update on world events

Excited to see the next intel update

I was gonna hit up your Tor site today, but I no longer see it listed…

Thank you for this, wish i had it before my first deployment. After 11 deployments including MEDCAPS and NGO ops I always tried to pass it on. I used to put officers in the sand table to make them push the items around. I found out where the unit was from and used city names from their area as points.
I have had to debrief kidnapped kids and i had training on it but i hated doing it. I did counter KNR (kidnapping/ Ransom) for southcom.
Schoolhouse is great to teach you how to think, the framework is fine.
I had so much incentive stuff most of the time it was crazy time.
Make friends with civil affairs, those guys get good stuff sometimes.
I started as an MP, reclassed as counter intel after being forced into it by a very good friend (He was one of the horse soldiers from the movie) he told me he refused to sign my reenlistment papers unless i promised to go CI. I ended up going to woc and became a HUMINT Asst team leader. Loved every minute of that job.

Thank you for these little glimpses (is that a word?) into that world.
"Little" things to excite the mind.

Organization is the key to everything

Love the info on this channel

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This brings a tear to my eye, not that I was ever brave enough in this lifetime to go to war, but because I always find myself in the company of those who have been that brave and I am willing to listen to whatever they need to talk about. I have an associate's degree in psychology but I eventually became a biologist and I worked in emergency medicine for a time so I have seen some shit, but nothing like what they see in war. Unfortunately, I expect that to change but not necessarily for the emergency department since you can only show up if you know you can afford it or if you're unconscious and someone else takes you there to save your life. So I have sat and cried with my brave brothers, many of them Vietnam veterans, and I can only imagine how it feels to have given intel and found out that your brothers have died because things change. 

The big thing I can bring to everything, whether it's war or just regular life, is that the condition of life itself is that things change. The way we measure life is that we remain alive and we measure that along with the passage of time. Time is nothing more than a measurement of entropy, which is also our inevitable path towards death. The best any intelligence officer (or anyone else for that matter) can do is give the most current information that they have and the best thing any operative can do is realize that even very recent intelligence is always going to be subject to change and sometimes a lot of change. Obviously, the best solution is to find a way to be less primal and solve our disputes without killing one another but I'm not sure that this isn't just a feature of our species that we can't evolve out of, but I hope there is a way. 

Even if we do find peaceful solutions to everything, none of us can forever avoid death and all of us do the best we can in any given situation with the things we knew at that time. Hindsight doesn't count unless we invent time travel and, when will we do that? Well it's irrelevant. The bottom line is that people should understand that their past decisions can only be based on the information and capability they had at that time so that was they best they could do in that situation. Yes, tragic things happen, especially in war, but if there was a better way, surely we or anyone else would have taken it. It's not fair to judge oneself or others based on what we've all done in the past when we couldn't have known what we know now. It's just not fair.

Has anyone heard anything about troops being on the streets around the US?

I'm glad I trained with Uncle Sam's Mental Children... it gave me so much insight into how to run the music and filmmaking industries.

Great Video Guys!!!

Delighted to see a fresh upload, jammed with vital information, instruction & "Lively Editorial Comment"! Thank you...🇺🇸 😎👍☕

What about, base design; from trench to star fort?

As a civilian, most of your videos are equal parts interesting, informative, and confusing.

Waiting for a new video!

This guy was a good officer.

You think 16 ads is reasonable?

Y'alls COs wrote their own PIRs? Mine always made us write them and then he would sign off on them.

Great content!

This was informative and immersive. Thanks

Good trash.

this is dope, but I wanna know how and when field intelligence operations are conducted.

Interested to know of people on this channel are interested in an unclassified intelligence analyst E Course? We have one launching on 20th November, which currently has 23 enrolled and we are looking for a panel of 30. Skill sets are vased on Military Intelligence, current intelligence analyst functions but in a humanitarian crisis context. If you are interested, hit a like and ill post the link in a subthread comment

Appreciate your videos sir.

This is not a negative comment. Rather some experience from real life:

Yes I am a lifetimes martial artist. I have found that an effecr groin kick must be spot on. You will hit the crotch, and miss the right spot. 9 out of 10 times. You are better going after the knee caps. Just my experience

Don’t tell the General that no one cares, even though it’s true

YEARS ago one of my commanders was a Ranger type [blew out his back on a jump and was given a desk] Information collection was one of his hot button topics [along with us field medics cross training] Point being everyone can and should pick up information and forward it to the analytic staff.

"What in the Sam Hill?" I haven't heard that expression for decades. My grandfather and uncle used to say it!

Sort of "soft cuss words" ... like "by golly Ned".

I am a staff member in a new planning cell, and what you’ve said works in the microcosm of inter-office/inter-service battles that go on in planning. It's not Sun Szu, 48 Laws stuff, but handshakes and hugs mixed with nurturing relationships to get the necessary information love your content. Its helping me see how the Intell guys think and what they re going through.

thank you! ❤️🤍💙