Marine Corps Intelligence Reform: Keeping Pace with an Evolving Intelligence Community

摘要

The events of September 11, 2001 provide evidence that there is a need for intelligence reform to get actionable intelligence that could prevent such tragedies in the future. Therefore, bridging the gap between national- level collection assets and tactical-level operators is pivotal to future foreign and domestic operations. As Marine Major Reynolds stated, 'The Marine engaged in combat must be pushed every pertinent piece of analyzed intelligence (drawn from the vast collection of disparate data) in a manner that is clear and tailored to his portion of the fight.' Marine Corps Intelligence needs to refine its human, signals, and geospatial intelligence doctrine to bridge the gap with national-level agencies. This will give Marines a better picture of the type of enemy situations they will face and will greatly reduce the uncertainty under which the commander must base his decisions. An example of such reform would be providing Marines as full-time liaisons attached to the national-level collection asset command structure to communicate the type of information required by the Marines on the ground. Liaisons with these commands will maximize the intelligence from each of these disciplines, but additional liaisons are still required.