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20/05/2016

Intelligence Complex Cycle: a flexible tool to operate network (DIEEEO50-2016)

The Intelligence Cycle remains a valid simplification to explain how Intelligence works. Some technological innovations shorten the decision-making process timing and, therefore, there is a need to introduce some functional and organizational changes. These innovations allow the traditional Intelligence Cycle to be wider, in order to include the Collection Cycle -a part of the NATO JISR- and this way implementing the so-called Complex Intelligence Cycle. The Complex Intelligence Cycle helps to understand more clearly the different phases of intelligence and decision, which are overlapped in certain cases. The implementation of the Complex Intelligence Cycle satisfies a renewed and efficient involvement of intelligence in future warfare, shortening the decision-making process and ensuring an effective warning system. To do this without renouncing the simplicity, it is necessary to normalize the Complex Intelligence Cycle and apply it ambitiously.

Author: Luis Martínez Viqueira

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