Alert and Ready, An Organizational Design Assessment of Marine Corps Intelligence, An Organizational Design Assessment of Marine Corps Intelligence

Author

Webb; Katharine Watkins ; Young; Stephanie ; Clarke; Colin P. ; Paul; Christopher ; Thie; Harry J.

Year

2011

Publisher

RAND Corporation

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-83305-260-5

Link

Last Update

06-Jan-2026

Keywords

Political Science ; Business ; History

Description

U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence is assigned mission responsibility for all USMC intelligence matters, with functions ranging from conducting intelligence collection to conducting analysis in support of operating forces in combat and deployed around the world. It also represents the Marine Corps in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and supports the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) resource allocation processes. Particularly since 2001, the USMC intelligence enterprise has demonstrated agility in tailoring its organization to meet evolving expeditionary force demands. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizational structures. USMC operations include distributed operations, irregular warfare,...