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Security and Force Protection

Security and Force Protection

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Exercises

Lectures

Course Description

Understand the significance and role of intelligence activities, counterintelligence protection and security support during planning and CAF employment. Analyse the process and the specifics of force protection in order to resist the threats and security risks.

Study Programmes

graduate
Military Leadership and Management - study
(2. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Categorize cognitive tools used in the development of analytical products (critical and creative reasoning).
  2. Recognize the importance of the high-quality relationship between the commander (trust) and intelligence staff (expertise)
  3. Combine the methods for a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary operational environment
  4. Explain the tasks of intelligence personnel in certain phases of the military decision-making process
  5. Categorize the intelligence cycle and the decision-making process
  6. Identify the specifics of counterintelligence protection and security support.
  7. Apply preventive security measures.
  8. Use the elements of force protection

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

focus on understanding the terms and concept of intelligence analytics; Identification and analyses of complex problems in a military environment

Exercises

Case study

Multimedia and the internet

Teaching support involving e-learning with platforms for solving problem tasks that students do individually or in groups in their extracurricular time and present or submit them using the e-learning system.

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Intelligence and understanding the contemporary operational environment, 2 hours (characteristics, methods, variables, influence factors, effects, actor analysis)
  2. Intelligence disciplines, 2 hours (HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT)
  3. Intelligence disciplines, 2 hours (HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT)
  4. Intelligence as a combat/joint function, 2 hours (JISR/ISTAR)
  5. Intelligence cycle, 2 hours (managing intelligence requirements and collection of data, phases of the intelligence cycle/intelligence operation, procedures within the phases of the cycle)
  6. Intelligence Psychology, 2 hours (cognitive tools in the development of intelligence products)
  7. Preliminary exam 1
  8. Commander and Intelligence, 2 hours (trust and expertise relationship)
  9. Intelligence and System Organization in the CAF, 2 hours (intelligence principles, components and characteristics, organization of the system in CAF)
  10. Counterintelligence Protection (CP), 2 hours (military dimension of security, role and significance of CP, jurisdiction, relation between CP and HUMINT, CP as an intelligence function, counterintelligence cycle, counterintelligence measures)
  11. Security Support (SS), 2 hours (security threats, security threats opposition, security support principles, preventive security protection, force protection planning, risk management)
  12. Force protection, 2 hours (and force protection principles, elements and process, identification of threats and risks, vulnerability and risk assessment, force protection measures, force protection planning, risk management)
  13. Intelligence preparation of operational environment/battlefield, 2 hours (phases, steps and sub-steps, with the intelligence cycle)
  14. Intelligence support to CAF Operations, 2 hours (joint operations support, special operations support, stabilization operations support and support of counterinsurgency operations)
  15. Preliminary exam 2

Literature

(2014.), ZDP 2.0 (2014), Obavještajno djelovanje, protuobavještajna zaštita i potpora sigurnosti, GS OS RH, Zagreb, GS OS RH
(2015.), ZDP 2.1 (2015), Obavještajni postupci, GS OS RH
(2016.), AJP-2 (2016), Allied Joint Doctrine for Intelligence, Counterintelligence and Security, NATO
(2015.), AJP-3.14 (2015), Allied Joint Doctrine for Force Protection, NATO

For students

General

ID 282269
  Summer semester
3.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
15 Exercises

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