intelligence operations — The variety of intelligence and counterintelligence tasks that are carried out by various intelligence organizations and activities within the intelligence process.

The initial phase of planning and targeting of the intelligence cycle includes four major stages:

Beyond the demonstrated psychological value of images in helping people understand complex topics, whatever replaces the intelligence cycle will also have to replace the image of the intelligence cycle.

There was a synergy between ACDA and ACIS that extended throughout the intelligence cycle.

Once again, themes emerge from the general discontent with the inadequacies of the intelligence cycle.

In the end, whether you accept this new model of the intelligence process or not, it is clear that the hoary image of the intelligence cycle needs to be put to rest.

The intelligence cycle is a set of processes used to provide useful information for decision-making....

The steps of the intelligence cycle correspond to distinct organisational and technical features of Comint production.

(Diane Publishing Company 2000) The most important point in the information cycle is considered the analysis.

Despite its popularity, the intelligence cycle is widely criticized by intelligence professionals.

Many of these themes I will touch upon as I discuss alternatives to the intelligence cycle in later posts.

A number of scholars and practitioners have attempted, over the years, to rectify the problems with the intelligence cycle.

A simple Google image search on the term, "Intelligence Cycle" rapidly gives one a sense of the wide variety of agencies, organizations and businesses that use some variant of the cycle.

The quality and relevance of the disseminated reports lead in turn to the re-specification of intelligence collection priorities, thereby completing the intelligence cycle.

The quality and relevance of the disseminated reports lead in turn to the re-specification of intelligence collection priorities, thereby completing the intelligence cycle and moving back to the planning stage.