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Understanding JP 2-0: Joint Intelligence Framework

Nov 29, 2024

JP 2-0, Joint Intelligence

Introduction

  • JP 2-0 serves as the keystone document for joint intelligence.
  • Provides guidance for intelligence support to joint operations.
  • Focuses on integrating operations, plans, and intelligence.

Scope and Purpose

  • Governs activities and performance of the Armed Forces in joint operations.
  • Provides doctrinal basis for U.S. military coordination with other agencies and multinational operations.
  • Offers guidance for combatant commanders and joint force commanders.

Application

  • Applies to joint staff, commanders of combatant commands, sub-unified commands, and combat support agencies.
  • Doctrine is authoritative; must be followed unless exceptional circumstances dictate otherwise.

Summary of Changes

  • Revision of terms and processes, including intelligence interrogation and sociocultural analysis (SCA).
  • New definitions and modifications for intelligence processes and categories.

Nature of Intelligence

  • Intelligence integrates into military operations, providing insights for decision-making.
  • Involves collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination.
  • Supports commanders with assessments and estimates of the operational environment (OE).

Roles and Responsibilities of Joint Intelligence

  • Primary role is to facilitate mission accomplishment through information and assessments.
  • Responsibilities include informing the commander, describing the OE, supporting planning and execution, and assessing operations.

Joint Intelligence Process

  • Consists of six categories: planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, dissemination and integration, evaluation and feedback.
  • Intelligence process is dynamic and continuous.

Principles of Joint Intelligence

  • Perspective: Understand all aspects of the OE, including sociocultural factors.
  • Synchronization: Synchronize intelligence with plans and operations.
  • Integrity: Maintain intellectual honesty and avoid cognitive biases.
  • Unity of Effort: Centralized planning with decentralized execution.
  • Prioritization: Focus intelligence efforts based on commander’s guidance.
  • Excellence: Aim for high-quality intelligence products.
  • Prediction: Accept the risk of predicting adversary intentions.
  • Agility: Remain flexible and adaptable.
  • Collaboration: Leverage diverse analytic resources.
  • Fusion: Integrate information from all sources.

Intelligence Organizations and Responsibilities

  • The intelligence community (IC) includes 17 member organizations.
  • Key roles of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
  • Joint intelligence operations centers (JIOCs) and Joint Task Force intelligence support (JISEs) play central roles.

Intelligence Support to Joint Operations

  • Joint operation planning involves intelligence support through annex B.
  • Intelligence Planning (IP) processes involve two lines of effort: support to planning and planning intelligence operations.
  • Continuous assessment and adaptation are critical.

Intelligence Sharing and Cooperation

  • Multinational Sharing: Align with national disclosure policy, maintain unity of effort, and share necessary information.
  • Interorganizational Collaboration: Establish strong networks, mutual trust, and continuous communication.

Appendices

  • Detailed references, processes, and definitions for various intelligence operations and methodologies.