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About JSOU
Popular Resources
Upcoming Courses
*Continuous Learning (CL) courses are not shownUSSOCOM Staff Education Program Foundations
Theater Special Operations Command Staff Preparation Course-Mobile
Joint Special Operations Public Affairs Course
Recent Publications
Cognitive Warfare to Dominate and Redefine Adversary Realities: Implications for U.S. Special Operations Forces
Advancing the SOF Warrior Mind: Essays from the Academic Year 2025 JSOU Call for Special Operations Papers
Leveraging Contingent Capital as a Non-Traditional Discipline of Economic Warfare
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Topics in Intelligence (Pilot)
Description
Topics in Intelligence (TII) is an Advanced course consisting of five modules: 1) Intelligence in Irregular Warfare (IW); 2) Understanding Allied & Partner Intelligence; 3) Understanding Adversary Intelligence; 4) Ethics and Intelligence; and 5) The Future of Intelligence. The focus of the course is for students to gain a greater appreciation of how intelligence influences/affects the strategic environment and to forecast/anticipate how current and future strategic environments will affect intelligence. The course will conclude with a practicum/group project where students will forecast a future security environment and recommend how intelligence should adapt based on their analysis.
Audience
· Primary- Intelligence officers and other practitioners (O3-O5), Warrant Officers (W1-W5), Non-Commissioned Officers (E6-E9) and Civilian employees in equivalent grades assigned to CJSOTF, TSOC, SOJTF, or USSOCOM HQ. · Secondary: Military and civilian officers from Interagency partners and allied nations.
Remarks
N/a
Prerequisites
Materials
All required texts and materials will be available to the student on either the course e-Campus site or issued upon arrival in the classroom. Each student MUST have after hours – NOT in the classroom – access to commercial internet and the course e-Campus site throughout the course.
Accreditation
JSOU is currently an accredited educational institution accredited through the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education & Training (ACCET) - a national accrediting agency recognized by the Department of Education. This course has not yet been submitted for accreditation.