TY - JOUR
T1 - Strategic-intelligence analysis
T2 - Contributions from an operational-design orientation
AU - Duczynski, Guy
AU - Knight, Charles
N1 - Includes bibliographical references.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - To ensure actions are ‘purposeful’—that is, that they achieve the intended outcome— planners rely on sound intelligence to develop courses of action. Intelligence requirements and subsequent collection in support of any planning effort should be informed by an appreciation of what that effort is seeking to achieve and specifications of what should be collected. This paper examines operational design and suggests that the use of a shared language of factors and conditions can bind the two disciplines—intelligence and planning—together such that the products of intelligence, and the detailed explanations for the area of interest, lead directly to lines of operation and courses of action for planners. The paper presents a case study of organised transnational crime in a law-enforcement context.
AB - To ensure actions are ‘purposeful’—that is, that they achieve the intended outcome— planners rely on sound intelligence to develop courses of action. Intelligence requirements and subsequent collection in support of any planning effort should be informed by an appreciation of what that effort is seeking to achieve and specifications of what should be collected. This paper examines operational design and suggests that the use of a shared language of factors and conditions can bind the two disciplines—intelligence and planning—together such that the products of intelligence, and the detailed explanations for the area of interest, lead directly to lines of operation and courses of action for planners. The paper presents a case study of organised transnational crime in a law-enforcement context.
KW - Intelligence
KW - Operational design
KW - Wicked messy problems
KW - planning
KW - General morphological analysis
UR - https://www.jinfowar.com/journal/volume-17-issue-1/strategic-intelligence-analysis-contributions-operational-design-orientation
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 16
EP - 30
JO - Journal of Information Warfare
JF - Journal of Information Warfare
SN - 1445-3312
IS - 1
ER -