Abstract
Abstract
This research brief specifically focuses on the preliminary findings from Project Kitae Part II, a study that dealt with intelligence analysis challenges deriving from a complex battlespace. The theoretical approach includes constructivist and material/efficiency approaches to understanding the challenges of complex battlespaces for military intelligence. These challenges to the traditional intelligence cycle are placed within a comparative framework of traditional time & space (TTS) approaches vs. social network analysis approaches (SNA). A case study is included which consists of participant observation data from a 6-month period (GIVE from-to DATES?) in Upper Gereshk Valley (UGV), Helmand, Afghanistan. The objective was to identify the approaches that work best in a complex battlespace, where there are a plethora of actors and interests. The results clearly indicate that SNA is not only essential to understanding the counter-insurgency (COIN) environment for effective warfighting, but that SNA approaches are just as important to understanding our own MI organization.