Counter Insurgency Course

In today’s operating environment, the intelligence function has taken on a new and even more important role in the planning and conduct of COIN operations. In a COIN environment, intelligence personnel provides a fundamental role in identifying and targeting insurgent networks and leadership. A Highly trained intelligence team knows how to utilize all aspects of the intelligence function to accomplish this goal, and maximize the ability of modern battle groups to counter insurgent activities and destroy their operational ability.

To do this effectively Intelligence personnel require a base knowledge of past and present COIN campaigns, to learn from their success and failures. Building upon this base, intelligence professionals need to learn advanced skills such as link analysis, and spatial-temporal analysis in order to know who key nodes in an insurgent network are and where insurgents are likely to strike. Additionally, intelligence professionals require the skills to find and exploit valuable resources, such as the Internet, to expose terrorists’ tactics, techniques, procedures, and planning operations.