Focus Targeting in a COIN Environment

<p>Senior military leaders in Afghanistan recognize that there is a systemic problem in how our intelligence community is trained to look at the enemy and provide proper support to the military's counterinsurgency strategy. Where in the past the intelligence community focused on enemy forces of a nation state finding the enemy in a counterinsurgency COIN environment requires a holistic understanding of the environment. At the operational and tactical level reaching this level of understanding requires intelligence assets to focus on the social networks and how they interrelate. Additionally effective targeting in today's COIN environment requires a much different approach as well. Dynamic targeting models like the Find Fix Finish Exploit Analyze and Disseminate (F3EAD) model are extremely useful tools for rapidly processing information into useful intelligence for targeting.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>