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Intelligence

Meaning in military & defence, with examples

/ɪnˈtelɪdʒəns/nounCommon term

In military & defence, intelligence means: Information about an area, situation or other forces that has been collected and analysed to help commanders decide; also the people who do this work.

In Turkish: istihbarat

How it is used

Uncountable. Intelligence is gathered, analysed and shared. The staff branch is often called G2 or J2. Types are named by source: human intelligence (HUMINT), signals intelligence (SIGINT), open-source intelligence (OSINT).

Example sentences

  1. The intelligence officer briefed the staff on the weather and road conditions.

  2. In the exercise, students analysed open-source intelligence from news reports.

Common collocations

  • gather intelligence
  • intelligence officer
  • intelligence report
  • share intelligence
  • open-source intelligence
  • reconnaissanceThe activity of visiting or watching an area to gather information about the ground, routes, weather or other forces before acting.
  • briefingA meeting in which people receive the information and instructions they need before a task, often with slides, maps and a fixed structure.
  • situation report (SITREP)A short, regular report that tells a higher headquarters the current status of a unit: where it is, what it is doing, its problems and its needs.
  • classifiedOfficially marked as secret or sensitive, so that only authorised people with the right security clearance may see or handle it.

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