U'S' Marine Corps Intelligence

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U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence

• AFCEA NOVA Naval IT Day
• March 5, 2008

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Resource Competition

• Water
• gt3 billion people will live in water-stressed
  countries
• Nearly one-half land surface consists of river
  basins shared by more than one country
• Water shortages coupled with other tensions
  could create conflict
• Energy
• 50 increase in demand for energy
• Oil demand will increase from 8M bpd to gt100M
  bpd
• Natural gas usage expected to increase by 100

• Other
• Diamonds, gold, coltan, copper, timber

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Population is the Terrain

• 7.2 billion up from 6.1 billion in 2000
• Rate of growth down from 1.3 (2002) to 1 (2015)
• 95 of increase in developing countries nearly
  all in expanding urban areas
• S/SE Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa will dominate
• Youth bulges will persist

• Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Latin America
• Destabilizing, when combined with high
  unemployment or communal tension
• High mortality, low birthrates and/or immigration
• AIDS high birthrates, but, higher mortality
  health care

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Distributed Operations

• The next step in Maneuver Warfare
• Adapting our methods
• Remaining a flexible combined arms force
• Enabling combat-experienced decision-makers by
  distributing authority

• Concept
• Create spatial temporal advantage via new
  capacity for integrated action by physically
  dispersed units
• Sense and act across an expanded battlespace
• Distribute reaggregate seamlessly
• Design operations to dynamically link both
  concentrated and distributed forces
• Exploit
• Networked command control
• Joint organic fires

Focused on Marine Leaders- At Every Level
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Marine Corps ISR Today
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MCISR-E Net-Centric Migration FY12
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Getting Intel Down to and Back from the Lowest
Tactical User
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Tactical Fusion Center (TFC)