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…e@ Avoid over-reliance on a single source of information. e@ Seek and heed the opinions of those closest to the reporting. © Be suspicious of human sources or sub-sources who have not been met with…

Joint Operations Across the Range of Military Operations V-53 (d) Nonlinear Operations in Contiguous AOs. The lower left-hand pane in Figure V-5 illustrates the JFC’s entire assigned operational area divided into subordinate…

…Egyptian forces exploited these vulnerabilities and timed the attack to occur on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, when they perceived the response of Israeli forces would be reduced. As a result of their deception…

…X X X Time Event Chart Analyzing threat, neutral and friendly entity patterns of behavior. • Event trees. • Link analysis. • Indicators. • Pattern analysis. • Network analysis. • Pattern of life analysis. X X X Pattern of Life Analysis Analyzing…

…Use of basic diagnostic analytical techniques Technique Used for: Often used with: Offensive/ Defensive Stability DSCA Sorting • Review of large amounts of data. • Review of multiple categories of information. • Any stage. • Generating hypotheses (brainstorming, ACH). • Functional…

…Use of core Army analytical techniques Technique Used for: Often used with: Offensive/ Defensive Stability DSCA Brainstorming • Identifying potential actions of threat, neutral, and friendly entities. • Developing information collection strategies. • Developing targeting strategies. Delphi techniques. X…

…Analyze the diagnosticity of the evidence and arguments; that is, identify which items are most helpful in judging the relative likelihood of alternative hypotheses. Step 3 is perhaps the most important element of this analytical procedure…