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Security and Force Protection
Security and Force Protection
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Exercises
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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
- Categorize cognitive tools used in the development of analytical products (critical and creative reasoning).
- Recognize the importance of the high-quality relationship between the commander (trust) and intelligence staff (expertise)
- Combine the methods for a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary operational environment
- Explain the tasks of intelligence personnel in certain phases of the military decision-making process
- Categorize the intelligence cycle and the decision-making process
- Identify the specifics of counterintelligence protection and security support.
- Apply preventive security measures.
- 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
ExercisesCase study
Multimedia and the internetTeaching 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
- Intelligence and understanding the contemporary operational environment, 2 hours (characteristics, methods, variables, influence factors, effects, actor analysis)
- Intelligence disciplines, 2 hours (HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT)
- Intelligence disciplines, 2 hours (HUMINT, SIGINT, OSINT, IMINT)
- Intelligence as a combat/joint function, 2 hours (JISR/ISTAR)
- 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)
- Intelligence Psychology, 2 hours (cognitive tools in the development of intelligence products)
- Preliminary exam 1
- Commander and Intelligence, 2 hours (trust and expertise relationship)
- Intelligence and System Organization in the CAF, 2 hours (intelligence principles, components and characteristics, organization of the system in CAF)
- 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)
- Security Support (SS), 2 hours (security threats, security threats opposition, security support principles, preventive security protection, force protection planning, risk management)
- 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)
- Intelligence preparation of operational environment/battlefield, 2 hours (phases, steps and sub-steps, with the intelligence cycle)
- Intelligence support to CAF Operations, 2 hours (joint operations support, special operations support, stabilization operations support and support of counterinsurgency operations)
- 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