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In a wide..very wide area of operations its not possible..for Higher echelon HQs to keep a tab on all the tactical ops currently going on ..remember now its a more non linear distributed battle space. In fact Commanders at higher HQ are more concerned with the operational and strategic outcomes and will focus on those major battles that have a direct bearing on these.The boot level tactical operations in fact go unnoticed..and its very true that its not possible to cater to their immediate intelligence needs or for the soldiers themselves to request information--keeping in mind the very low strength of Higher HQ intelligence personnel or support personnel..also the other sensors ..technical/aerial/ground/Humint-R&STACI..these have a very heavy task schedule..unlimited demands are placed on these assets by the units in operation and its practically not possible to task them to satisfy the intelligence needs of every ground tactical unit.The battle environment is terribly fluid..uncertain..highly dynamic and asset management becomes extremely difficult and also ISR synchronization.In our indian military context ops and intelligence are not really viewed as integral part of each other..both forming one whole.Ops tend to see intelligence as a support function.Somewhere else in my project I have attempted to project it as a full combat force with all the attributes that go with infantry and other combat arms ..but in the intelligence-armory/C2/defensive-offensive TTPs context.For the sake of the argument in this post Id like to say that we need to empower the ground infantry and other combat units with tactical int capability , render push of int from down to upper echelons..horizontal sharing between units , creation of interim cloud storage ..not at higher HQ Int section but at the created TACTICAL OPS CENTERS ..where metadata and the most current intelligence/demographic data/typographical data/terrain info and community info and even current and immediate past attack/IED profiles are stored..point is these cloud storage units can be accessed by the soldier through push systems (i have designed few based on handheld mobile devices with internet connection or for static centers --terminals-) and int-reach (Request for Information)...once accessed the cloud storage will give them information about the enemy history in near vicinity..or answer their immediate int requirements and if that data is not there in the cloud database..then there will be actuator system which will sense the intelligence gaps/needs and actuate the sensor that is nearest to the deployed unit.

The interface will support abstract queries:

1. patrol these roads; 
2. search this area; 
3. provide imagery of a specific location; 
4. track all targets of a specific class on a specific route or location; or
5. alert me whenever a threat is identified within a certain distance of my location.
   
   Information that matches these queries is sent by the system (Cloud )to the handheld device. The handheld interface provides a map of the surrounding area that displays real-time tracks and detections and imagerymetadata. The imagery metadata describes, at a glance, the imagery available from the surroundingarea.The handheld held interface can also itself be programmed to contain GPS , Voice Recorder , Pathfinder , Matrices to satisfy different criterion given different situations , shortages in utilities-ammo-ration,SALUTE Report fields (Size,Activity , Location , Unit , Time of observed event (not reporting it) , Equipment -- all enemy observed variables)..you will find this form draft right below at the given link.