Intelligence for the Canadian Army in the 21st century : Enabling land operations

While the Canadian Army has almost a century of intelligence experience, the truism that "how we define what we think we are doing when we are doing intelligence shapes how we do intelligence" is affecting the type of intelligence available to the Canadian Army today. To orient itself for the 21st Century, Army Intelligence needs to be re-oriented away from this information management construct and towards a knowledge management one, emphasizing integration within a Joint, Interagency, Multinational and Public (JIMP) framework to operate at both the operational and tactical levels, supported by the basic, current and estimative intelligence required to support not only force employment, but also force generation and theatre preparation.