Join the
INTELST
Information-Sharing Forum
By Rich Holden,
The
INTELST was created in April 2000 to provide an information-sharing forum to
discuss current and future intelligence doctrine, and to share and request
ideas, and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)
between intelligence professionals at all levels, regardless of their location. From a humble beginning with about 30 charter
members, the INTELST has grown to over 1,300 members all over the world, and at
all levels of command and rank. The
INTELST membership is composed of intelligence professionals from across the
spectrum of the military and civilian worlds, to include all the
Discussions
on the INTELST have covered a wide range of topics, to include: Asymmetric warfare, After Action Reviews
& Lessons Learned from Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM, the
CSA’s focus on actionable intelligence, the
Transformation of current and future MI force structures and requirements in
light of the Unit of Actions and Modularity, the training of intelligence
analysts, split-based operations, Priority Intelligence Requirements, Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and their use in OIF,
professional Recommended Reading Lists, new Field Manual issues and associated
doctrinal issues, intelligence fusion and fusion centers, open source intelligence
(OSINT), Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB), targeting, and
intelligence architectures and systems in general.
The
INTELST, as well as numerous other military topic-related lists, are run on of
a list server that is maintained in the Pentagon by the U.S. Army Information
Management Center (IMCEN). The list is
not a Department of the Army officially endorsed forum, so discussions can be,
and sometimes are, controversial, yet kept within the spirit of “thinking
outside the box.” A good set of
regularly enforced Rules of Engagement for the list also help keep discussions
on intelligence related topics.
Member’s of the INTELST also help contribute to the growth
and enrichment of the INTELST's knowledge database on
the Army Knowledge Online (AKO) site (https://www.us.army.mil/)
called the Intel Reference Files (IRF)
Knowledge Collaboration Center (KCC).
There you can find a wide variety of files all organized by topic and
relevance such as AARs, SOPs, handbooks/smartbooks, briefings, OPDs/NCOPDs,
TTPs, current and historical readings—all centered on
our intelligence profession.
If
you are interested in joining the INTELST or accessing the IRF KCC, please send
an email (your AKO/us.army.mil address is preferred) to “ richard.holden@us.army.mil .” Rich
Holden also requests that you pass this message on to other intelligence
professionals who may be interested in joining.