Military Intelligence: A Comprehensive Guide for Final Exam Preparation

Posted on Aug 20, 2024 in Other subjects

Bank of Questions for Final Exam

1. What is Information?

Specific knowledge is usually partial and located about people, actions, or things, which has not undergone any process of intellectual capacity and establishing as part of the elements used for the production of intelligence.

2. What is Military Intelligence?

Any document, fact, act, miscellaneous equipment, photograph, diagram, chart, report, observation, or indication of any kind that is used to learn the enemy, terrain, and weather conditions of the battlefield.

3. What Kinds of Information Exist?

a. Positive Information: Information that is confirmed by the existence of the object that identifies it.

b. Negative Information: Information that is not confirmed by the object itself that should be identified.

c. Basic Information: Information of a more or less remote descriptive and encyclopedic nature, mutable, static, or slowly changing.

d. Current Information: Type of information that originates from this and can update the basic information.

4. What is Intelligence?

It is the product of the process that two or more pieces of information gathered during the execution of the intelligence cycle undergo.

5. What is Combat Intelligence?

It is the knowledge of the enemy forces, terrain, and weather conditions; everything a commander needs to develop their plans and carry out tactical operations.

6. What are Self-Directed Activities?

These are the functions and tasks that meet the intelligence field responsible for advising the commander on issues of Intelligence and Lead Body Intelligence Directorate.

7. What are Implementation Activities?

These are performed through open or concealed methods, consisting of search and information gathering, Ops. of ICIA, c / ICIA, security measures, and censorship that run partially or completely.

8. What are the Principles of Intelligence?

• Flexibility
• Utility
• Opportunity
• Security
• Initiative
• Continuity

9. What is the Intelligence Community?

Joint systems in each level of leadership, in order to meet their specific missions. These communities are formed on the basis of reciprocal agreements of mutual cooperation, for the treatment of intelligence problems of a common nature or specific aspects over which it has responsibility for a system. May be national, departmental, or regional level.

10. What is the Intelligence System?

A combination of media intelligence organs, procedures, equipment, etc., integrated harmoniously and balanced to obtain, record, process, and disseminate information and/or ICIA (Example: EJTO., FAB, FNB, POL.NAL., Etc.) Maintaining a relationship of functional dependence, led by the highest organ of the system.

11. Indicate the Specific Functions of P-2

The Intelligence Officer (P-2) is the principal advisor to the commander on matters relating to the enemy, terrain, weather, and safety.

Specific Functions: Intelligence Coordination, Employment Advice, Production of the ICIA or Information, Planning, Counterintelligence, Supervision and Control, Miscellaneous.

General Functions: Coordination, Employment, Advice, Production of the ICIA or Information, Planning, Counterintelligence, Supervision and Control, Miscellaneous.

12. What is the Plan of the Intelligence Section II?

• Sub-Intelligence Section
• Counter-Sub Section
• Sub-Section Secretary
• Sub-Section Firewall

13. What are the Constituent Parts of an Intelligence Requirement?

In general, a requirement of LCIA consists of three parts, which must be taken into account in drafting it, according to the following detail:

– Fundamental Questions: Will the enemy attack?

– Questions of Detail: If so, how strongly, when, where?

– An Indication or Evidence: Special attention to the advancement…

14. What is the Command Channel?

It is the link between Commanders within the command relationships. It is basically the transfer of findings and requirements of ICIA, orders, and directives approved by the Commander.

15. What is the Technical Intelligence Channel?

It is used to relieve the command channel, transmitting all communications that relate to compliance with the instructions given by the Commanders and they need not be transmitted from Commander to Commander. Basically for employee referral orders for the implementation of activities and procedures and secrets hidden interest in the field of ICIA, with urgency and in all cases, to the transfer of information was identical priority. The use of the technical channel ICIA enables the rapid and timely knowledge of the information to all elements of the Intelligence System.

16. What are the Most Common Sources of Information?

• Records and files
• Activity of the enemy or opponent
• Military-Enemy (Prisoners of war, deserters, wounded, and dead)
• Civil-Personal
• Military self-recovered
• Documents
• Clothing, equipment, and enemy
• Communications and other electromagnetic emissions from the enemy
• Unexploded ordnance, fragments, and craters
• Cartography
• Data, studies, and weather reports
• Press, Radio, TV, and films
• Organs of Government and Public Administration
• Political parties, trade associations, social, ideological of all kinds, open and clandestine
• Commercial entities, banking, and finance
• Welfare facilities or hospitals
• Prisons

17. What are the Organs of Collection of Information?

• The troops
• Intelligence Units
• Special Units

18. What are the Procedures for Gathering Information?

• Exploration
• Combat-Surveillance
• Determination of Whites
• Interrogations and Interviews
• Review of Documents
• Review of Materials
• Interpretation of Images
• Spy
• Listen
• Censorship
• Cryptography
• Procedures Sicosociométricos

19. The Registration Mechanism Will Take Effect on the ODI Using:

• Section-Journal
• Letter ENO-EPO situation
• Workbook
• Files

20. What is Included in the Assessment?

The determination of relevance, urgency, and future value and determining the degree of credibility of the source and the national search and finally the accuracy of the information.

21. What is Included in the Interpretation of Information?

• Analysis of information
• Integration of information
• Deduction (Conclusions of Intelligence)

22. What is Dissemination?

It is to distribute intelligence resulting from the processing of information, securely and timely to whom it is needed.

23. What is Use?

It is the use of intelligence by the recipients who receive it.

24. Definition of Counterintelligence

Activity to detect, neutralize, or nullify the enemy’s intelligence activities, real or potential, on its own forces, to ensure the media themselves and achieve surprise.

25. What is the Discipline of the Secret?

It is the need to maintain absolute confidentiality of all that is treated or seen within the military; it should be exercised more strictly to ensure maximum effectiveness.

26. Awareness of Counterintelligence

Implies the exact knowledge and reflection of what it represents to achieve a desirable degree of safety and the dangers of failing to observe the actions of C/ICIA. Each member will take the opportunity to promote the habit of safety, for their constant repetition in practice and will be achieved by strengthening the “awareness of C/ICIA” and limit security risks and vulnerabilities.

27. Awareness of Intelligence

Is defined as such: “The permanent mental attitude against the existence of a real or potential enemy, internal or external, permanent, also able to act openly or surreptitiously separate our actions.”

Such awareness of intelligence is the conviction of the importance, lining the field of intelligence that will drive to act effectively as an organ of intelligence, either within the framework of the unit, or as a member of the specialty units (or equipment currently Intelligence).

28. Indicate the Principles Underpinning the Army Military Doctrine

• Action-nuclearized
• Objective
• Offensive
• Will to win
• Surprise
• Security

29. What are the Military Systems Where You Get to Apply the Doctrinal Principles of the Army?

Army doctrinal principles were applied in:

• Military-Security System and External Defence
• Military-Security System and Internal Defense
• System Security and Defence Military Cooperative
• Military System Protection Society
• Military System-Active Participation in Development

30. Explain What is Security?

Security is a further combat operation, which becomes reality through measures to prevent surprises, preserve freedom of action, and denying information to enemy forces on their own land.

31. What is the Transportation Security Service?

The SSE is the set of actions and measures to avoid surprises by the enemy against our troops when they are in custody and/or parked.

32. What are Honors?

The awards are complementary operations designed to obtain information about the enemy and the area of operations.

33. What are Movements?

It is the displacement of a unit or any military force with all its resources to a particular area, timely and safely, maintaining the combat readiness of troops to accomplish the mission that has been allocated.

34. How are the Movements Classified?

The movement of troops by the means used are classified into gear and transport.

Troop movements in terms of the way communications can be used: movements by air, movements of water, and land movements.

Troop movements in terms of tactical moves can be safely conducted under combat conditions imminent and that puts the ground safety measures and conditions of engagement in the best possible conditions. And that Administrative Movements performed when contact with enemy ground forces is remote and does not need to take special security measures land, giving priority in all cases the considerations of comfort to the troops.

35. What are Marches?

It is the orderly movement of a unit of troops who move from one place to another, using their own organically. The main purpose of the march is to move troops to the place of future employment, in time, under the best conditions and with the appropriate device to accomplish the mission that has been allocated.

36. Classification of Gears:

In relation to the degree of visibility:

• Daytime driving
• Nightlife

In relation to the speed and duration:

• Normal gait
• Forced-March

In relation to ground conditions:

• Plain-Protests
• Forests-Marches
• Marching in the mountains
• Marching in Desert area

In relation to the weather:

• Marching with strong heat
• Marching with intense cold

In relation to the nature of the roads:

• Speed on roads
• Marches on dirt roads
• Speed across the field

37. Explain What Parking is?

The parking lot is periods of rest for the troops to retain or regain their fighting ability, along with the combat and movement, tactical operations are carried out by troops in the field. By the same token, it will be sought to replace a troop’s energies; the commanders must ensure proper rest of his staff.

38. According to the Place and Means Used (Construction, Outdoors, Tents, etc.), There are Different Types. What are the Types of Parking?

Cantonment, encampment, bivouac, and Joint.

39. What is Offensive?

The set of actions by which you seek the enemy, maneuver on him and attack him to destroy, capture, or destabilize gaining ground, positions, or targets of interest to the decision of the battle.

40. What are the Fundamentals of the Offensive?

• Objective
• Maneuver
• Distribution of forces
• Coordination and Control
• Flexibility
• Surprise
• Security
• Fire Support Plan

41. Indicate What Types of Action are There?

• Frontal
• Rupture
• Overflow
• Involvement

42. The Maneuver is Aimed Against the Front of the Device and the Enemy Attacks Along the Front Using the Shorter Address, with the Aim of: Coiling, Destroying, and Capturing a Weaker Enemy. What Name Does it Get?

Frontal.

43. The Maneuver in Which the Main Attack Was Made Through the Enemy Lines and Breaking the Continuity of the Opposing Position, Opens and Strengthens a Gap in Your Device to Capture an Objective in Their Rear. What Name Does it Receive?

Rupture

44. The Maneuver is Designed to Conquer a Goal in the Immediate Rear of the Device Acting on an Enemy Flank. What Name Does it Get?

Overflow.

45. The Maneuver is Characterized by the Maneuver Attack Directed Against a Vital Target Located in the Rear of the Thick Deep Enemy. What Name Does it Get?

Involvement.

46. The Offensive Action Passes Through Various Stages, One After the Other, Often Without Interruption. Indicate Which are the Stages?

• The approach
• Making contact
• Attack
• The Farm
• The Chase

47. What Parts Include a Defensive Position?

• Safety Zone
• Position of resistance
• Area deployment

48. Explain What the Defense is?

Tactical operations are those intended for the use of all facilities and procedures are intended to resist, reject, destroy, or prevent an enemy attack.

49. What are the Foundations of a Defensive Operation?

• Appropriate use of terrain and weather conditions
• Mutual support
• Organization of defense in depth
• Defense in every direction
• Coordination of fire plans
• Plan-Coordination barriers
• Flexibility
• Security
• Maximum use of offensive operations

50. What Kind of Defense is There?

• Tenacious defense or no idea of retreat
• Mobile Defense

51. What are the Forces that are Used in a Mobile Defense?

• Security forces
• Fixing forces
• Blow-Forces

52. What is the Perimeter Defense?

It is adopting to have sufficient capacity to cope with an attack from any direction. The main forces in positions that will close the probable directions of approach of the enemy at 360 degrees.

53. What is a Retrograde Operation?

A retrograde operation is an organized movement synchronized to move away from the enemy rearguard or exchange a minimum of space for a maximum delay, with a projection of a change in attitude or relocate forces to offer greater advantages over the enemy.

54. Of the Foundations that Serve a Retrograde Operation and Proper Use of Terrain and Weather, Maintaining Freedom of Action, Produce the Maximum Attrition of Enemy Forces, Centralized Planning and Decentralized Execution and Security. Tell Your Approach Which is More Important? And Justify That?

(This question requires a subjective answer and justification based on military doctrine and principles.)

55. Classification of Retrograde Operations:

• Retract: Night and day
• Action-retarding: For successive position and alternate positions
• Withdrawal