Always Out Front

摘要

During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and after some significant thought since my return to Fort Huachuca, a number of lessons learned themes became apparent to me. One of these themes is that with intelligence operations there is no "time out." We, as intelligence professionals, are always engaged. We are either postured for success because of hard training, thorough planning, meticulous preparation and aggressive execution, or we are postured for failure. We are no longer at a crawl, walk, run pace. In our current operational environment we must maintain intelligence readiness to support operations on no notice. Our Army is running; we must stay ahead!