Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has become fundamental to successful military operations. ISR assets seek to obtain a superior understanding of an adversary’s information and other strengths and weaknesses to provide information vulnerability analysis. In some cases, it is difficult to distinguish between what is an ISR capability versus an IW capability; in fact, sometimes a platform or system can be both. Thus, ISR is also a critical part of the DII and must be protected, while it provides key information-enabling protective, retaliative, and offensive IW activities.