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<p>Operation IRAQI FREEDOM is well on its way into its fourth year and progress by the Coalition Air Force Transition Team is severely lagging behind their Army counterparts in rebuilding key departments within the Iraqi Armed Forces. One of the immediate priorities for the Iraqi Air Force to be relevant in defending their country is the acquisition of airpower for Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance operations. This drives the need to determine how the Iraqi Air Force should develop their intelligence capabilities in order to support Iraq's National Security Strategy.One of the first steps in addressing this issue is the clear identification of both specified and implied essential tasks necessary to generate intelligence capabilities. This paper will recognize those key essential tasks and use them as the basis to develop a comprehensive way ahead for establishing an enduring intelligence function within the Iraqi Air Force. The background for this research stems from a coalition advisor to the Iraqi Air Force Director of Intelligence deployment to Baghdad in 2006 where first hand experience and personal interviews of Iraqi personnel led to the realization of how severe Iraq's intelligence problem has become.Rebuilding intelligence capabilities is just one of many requirements that must be addressed for the Iraqi Air Force to reduce their reliance on coalition support.</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>