FM 2-0 Intelligence: October 2023 - Printed in Colour

FM 2-0 Intelligence October 2023 - Printed in Colour - Full Size Intelligence drives multidomain operations and multidomain operations enable intelligence. FM 2-0 focuses on the role of intelligence during operations by Army forces and is closely nested with the operational doctrine in FM 3-0, Operations. Together, FM 3-0 and FM 2-0 take an important step forward to drive change in Army culture and prepare for multidomain operations across the Army strategic contexts. Since the formation of the Continental Army, intelligence support to operations has been critical in winning the Nation’s conflicts. Effective intelligence then, now, and in the future is characterized as— Timely, relevant, accurate, and predictive, facilitating planning, decision making, and targeting. Collaborative with other warfighting functions to complement and reinforce effects against threat formations. Providing effective intelligence is becoming more challenging as operations become more complicated. The current operational environment (OE) is dynamic, complex, and shaped by the intersection of worldwide trends driven by globalization, technology, climate change, shifting geopolitics, and varying stages of conflict and resolution. The Nation’s adversaries are increasing capability, challenging Army forces to achieve enduring advantages, conduct integrated deterrence, and sustain active campaigning. Intelligence must encompass the entirety of the OE. Intelligence professionals must understand the land, maritime, air, space, and cyberspace domains as well as the human, information, and physical dimensions to be effective. This level of understanding is critical to enable a commander’s visualization and decision making during competition below armed conflict, crisis, and armed conflict. Commanders drive the intelligence warfighting function. The commander and staff continuously employ and sustain intelligence capabilities, shifting intelligence support, as necessary, to accomplish the mission. The G-2/S-2 is the intelligence warfighting function expert and advises the commander on intelligence capacities, capabilities, authorities, staff integration, certification, training, and employment. Effective intelligence requires collaboration among the commander, the G-2/S-2, the staff, and supporting intelligence unit commanders. The FM 2-0 logic chart is the introductory figure on pages xii and xiii. It illustrates the overarching why, who, what, where, and how associated with intelligence support to multidomain operations. Each successive chapter in this publication builds on the fundamentals established in the previous chapters. FM 2-0 discusses many aspects of intelligence support, including the commander and staff’s role within intelligence, intelligence staff activities, and how MI units conduct intelligence operations as part of information collection. The last two chapters discuss a key theme: fighting for intelligence—the struggle to provide intelligence on uncooperative and determined threats.