Weapons Intelligence (WEAPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every weapon carries a serial number and a paper trail from a factory to a legal export licence. Trafficking investigation...
Intelligence Disciplines
CBRN Intelligence (CBRNINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear risk is monitored by an unusually open international architecture. The intelligence value is in reading...
Vehicle Intelligence (VEHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A vehicle is a seventeen-character identifier attached to an engine. Decode it properly and you get the plant, the year,...
Supply Chain Intelligence (SUPPLYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
You do not have one supply chain. You have a tree of dependencies you have never enumerated, and your real...
Maritime Intelligence (MARINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Ships are legally required to announce themselves. The interesting behaviour is what happens in the minutes after a vessel stops...
Logistics Intelligence (LOGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Goods leave a paper trail long before they leave the warehouse. Customs declarations, manifests and trade statistics describe physical movement...
Aviation Intelligence (AVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An aircraft broadcasts its identity and position to anyone with a twenty-dollar receiver. The intelligence is not in the position;...
Space Intelligence (SPACEINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Orbits are deterministic and observable. A satellite cannot hide its manoeuvres from anyone willing to do the arithmetic, and much...
Signals Intelligence (SIGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Signals intelligence is a state function with a warrant behind it. For everyone else, the discipline still matters, because you...
Radio Frequency Intelligence (RFINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The spectrum is a public utility with a public map. Licences, allocations and open receiver networks let you characterise the...
Measurement & Signature Intel (MASINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Imagery shows you the object. Measurement and signature intelligence tells you what the object is doing, how hot it is...
Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
Patent Intelligence (PATENTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A patent is a bargain: an inventor gets a monopoly, and the public gets the working details. That trade makes...
Academic Intelligence (ACADINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Research output is the earliest public indicator of national and corporate capability. A capability appears in a paper years before...
Legal Intelligence (LEGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Litigation is an involuntary disclosure engine. Adversaries in court say, under oath and on the public record, what they will...
Criminal Intelligence (CRIMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Criminal intelligence is not case notes with better formatting. It is the discipline that turns scattered incidents into an articulable...
Energy Intelligence (ENERGYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Energy is where physics, contracts and politics meet, and all three leave records. Energy intelligence reads the flows and the...
News Intelligence (NEWSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Reporting is evidence of what was published, by whom, when and sourced how. Treated that way it is one of...
Disinformation Intelligence (DISINFOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The finding is rarely that a claim is false. It is that a set of accounts, sites and outlets behaved...
Telephony Intelligence (TELINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A phone number is a routing address issued under a published plan, not a person. Telephony intelligence extracts everything the...
Identity Intelligence (IDENT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Identity resolution fails in two directions and only one of them is visible. A missed link costs you the investigation;...
Email Intelligence (EMAILINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An email address is three things at once: an identifier, a routing instruction and a piece of infrastructure history. Email...
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Social platforms record behaviour, not truth: what was posted, when, by an account, to an audience. Social media intelligence keeps...
Human Intelligence (HUMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Human intelligence is the only discipline where the source can be harmed by your success. Every rule in the tradecraft...
Medical Intelligence (MEDINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Medical intelligence is not about outbreaks. It is about whether the hospital your team would actually be taken to can...
