1966 US Army Vietnam War ARMOR ... - Survival Books

WWW.SURVIVALEBOOKS.COMarmy. The company, which is located 244. Target Acquisitionin the army rear service area, operatesunder the direct control of the Targets result from study or interpretationof the data supplied by many sources and agenmander.The technical intelligence cies. Speed and accuracy in reporting are vitalnfield team orga.c telhe military gne for successful engagement and destruction oftelligence unit of corps is responsibletargets. Soldiers must be trained to report allfor the collection of technical materiel enemy activity or lack of enemy activity.within the division areas to includeimmediate combat evaluation and to 245. Surveillancemake arrangements for the evacua- Surveillance involves the systematic observationof captured enemy equipment to tion of the battlefield by visual, electronic, phothetechnical intelligence company, tographic, and other means. It must be confieldarmy. Technical intelligence in- ducted on an all-weather, day-and-night basisformation required by brigades or bat- to provide timely information to support comtalionscan be obtained through intel- bat operations. Appendix XXI provides guidligencechannels.ance on the employment of ground radar.(4) Military intelligence detachment. Thisdetachment performs specialized in- 246. Counterintelligencetelligence and counterintelligence Counterintelligence consists of means to defunctionsthat require the employ- ceive the enemy, deny the enemy information,ment of special or foreign language and detect and expose, or neutralize, the enemyskills in support of the armored cav- intelligence effort. Active counterintelligencealry regiment or separate armored or measures block the enemy's attempts to gaininfantry brigades. The detachment information or to engage in sabotage or subprovidesthe cavalry regiment, or sep- version. Among these measures are counteraratearmored or infantry brigade S2, espionage, countersabotage, countersubversion,assistance in the specialized fields of and the use of smoke to deny observation. Seorderof battle, imagery interpreta- curity of a unit can be so effective that it cantion, interrogation of prisoners of deny the enemy any information and thus aidwar, document translation, and coun- in achieving surprise. Passive counterintelliterintelligenceactivities.gence measures conceal information from the(5) Armored cavalry regiment. Armored enemy; they include censorship, security ofcavalry regiments are equipped to col- classified documents and materiel, signal comlectinformation of the enemy and the munication security, concealment, camouflage,area of operations by ground and air electronic countermeasures, and control of civilactivities. See chapter 5 and FM population. A part of the counterintelligence17-95. section of the military intelligence detachmentwhich is attached to division may be attached243. Reconnaissance to brigade to advise the commander on coun-Effective reconnaissance provides much of terintelligence measures. The S2 assists inthe information necessary for the conduct of planning and supervising unit counterintellioperations(ch 5).gence training.137