Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com FM 34-54 pay for them. A concerted TECHINT program is vital to providing precise direction and purpose within the US R&D process to ensure that this parity or advantage is neutralized quickly and efficiently. OPERATIONAL AND TACTICAL LEVEL: For the Army, technology is changing how we organize, how we train and develop leaders, and how we conduct operations. Advances in electronics, communications, automation, reconnaissance and surveillance (R&S), contamination avoidance, precision-guided munitions, and the exploitation of space-based capabilities have increased the lethality, range, accuracy, and reliability of our weaponry.
Operational and tactical commanders rely on this technological advantage to successfully synchronize and execute complex modern Army operations. The introduction of a surprise technological capability by an adversary causes confusion and delay mission accomplishment until the capability is understood and countered. TECHINT is the key to the early identification of an adversary’s technical capabilities and the development of countermeasures for the operational and tactical commander. In the 1920's, Germany was developing the weapons and systems it would use against the Allies in the 1940's.
Because Allied nations did not integrate TECHINT into peacetime collection efforts, German S&T advances went largely unnoticed. When information did come to light, Washington and London ignored or ridiculed it. Later, when the Germans fielded their advanced weapons and systems in war, the resulting technological surprise on the battlefield was devastating. WORLD WAR II : During the air battle for Europe, the British used TECHINT to counter the German antiaircraft and night-fighter defenses. This was accomplished by exploiting captured aircraft radios and a captured radar station.
(See below a discussion of the Bruneval Raid.) The Allies captured many German and Italian weapons in North Africa. This collection led to the publishing of new technical material, such as— Technical manual E9 series handbooks on enemy weapons. Special series publications on German weapons. Training aids. 1-2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE