....The C-LIC initiative, launched under the direction of the
Marine Corps Warfighting Lab in Quantico, Va., will soon be battle-tested by California-based
3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, on its next Iraq deployment, slated for early 2008.
Today’s irregular warfare, with its lack of a uniformed enemy, makes intelligence gathering vital for enemy identification. To adapt to the emerging threat, infantry companies often create their own versions of ad hoc intelligence cells, said Vince Goulding, director of experimentation plans at the Warfighting Laboratory. But those individual efforts have been piecemeal, because the Corps had no standard training or equipment available, he said.
The new initiative for pushing intelligence analysis know-how down to the lower echelons, however, is about to change all that. Rifle companies will now be able to assess, analyze and disseminate information that they typically had relied on battalion or regimental command to produce.....
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