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From 3 through 16 November 2014, the 205th Military Intelligence (Ml) Battalion (BN) hosted the 19th annual joint, "Five-Eyes" (FVEY) Counterintelligence (Cl) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) exercise, VIGILANT PACIFIC at Bellows Air Force Station in Hawaii. VIGILANT PACIFIC has long been the premier Cl and HUMINT exercise in the Pacific and is unique for its FVEY construct. However, this most recent iteration made substantial leaps forward in refining and testing a growing body of multinational, and joint doctrine and establishing an integrated intelligence sharing architecture. Additionally, the exercise furthered the deep and historical friendship amongst the FVEY partners.
The output of these efforts is a burgeoning multinational intelligence enterprise in the Pacific that is highly interoperable and able to meet the partnership demands of Army and Joint doctrine and future force concepts. After operating side-by-side for more than a decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, exercises like VIGILANT PACIFIC help maintain post-operational momentum by reaffirming our partnering ties and the need for interoperability in our own area of responsibility.
The aim of VIGILANT PACIFIC nests with Army and Joint principles for multinational operations expressed in recent conceptual documents such as the Capstone Concept for Joint Operations: Joint Force 2020 and The U.S. Army Operating Concept: Win in a Complex World, the latter of which was published just days before last year's exercise began. According to the Army Operating Concept (AOC), the future Army force will "engage regionally to ensure interoperability, build relationships based on common interests, enhance situational awareness, assure partners, and deter adversaries."1 The AOC itself nests within the Joint Force's Capstone Concept for Joint Operations (CCJO), specifically within the concept of "globally integrated operations." The CCJO lists partnering as one of the eight key components of globally integrated operations and describes how the joint force must identify partners with whom they will most...