Publisher's Synopsis
The Army Intelligence Community (AIC) is fully engaged in the Army's Transformation process. However, the AIC's on-going transformation risks overlooking one critical, systemic shortfall - the perennial inability to provide sufficient intelligence to deploying forces under crisis-response conditions. Specifically, the AIC is hard-pressed to provide unconventional threat, cultural, demographic, and political/social intelligence down to individual villages, towns, or cities in a manner that supports initial employment operations. This intelligence requires a long-term presence in order to collect and understand the relevant information - a commitment that the AIC cannot meet for all potential contingency areas due to resource and operational constraints.
