Description:
The vast majority of military strategists agree with the importance of intelligence as a decisive factor during the planning and execution of successful military operations. The intelligence process consists of five phases: Planning and Direction, Collection, Processing and Exploatation, Analysis and Production, and Dissemination and Integration. All these stages are of equal importance in the effort to provide intelligence in support of military operations. However, most analyses concerning the modernization of procedures and technologies required to improve the intelligence process mainly focus on the collection phase of the intelligence cycle. Perhaps the most disadvantaged phase of the intelligence process, in terms of methodological progress, is the intelligence dissemination phase. The purpose of this article is to stress the importance of the intelligence dissemination phase of the intelligence process and to identify the difficulties encountered in this phase during the planning and execution of CJSO (Combined Joint Special Operations).