ISR, HUMINT Mix is Key to Situational Awareness in Southwest Asia

By Carlo Muñoz / February 25, 2009 at 5:00 AM
With the war in Afghanistan heating up, U.S. forces in the region must leverage both cutting-edge intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies and traditional human intelligence tactics to secure the upper hand against insurgent forces in the region, according to one battlefield commander. U.S. and coalition forces operating in the region must not become too dependent on ISR assets as their primary source of battlefield intelligence, Maj. Gen. John Kelly, former commander of Multinational Force-West in Iraq, said during a breakfast...

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