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<v ->I am Major Thomas Huet
from Ottawa, Ontario,</v>

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and I'm an Intelligence officer.

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<v ->The days of simply knowing
who and where the enemy is</v>

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and how they fight are over.

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The job of an Intelligence
Officer is to predict the future.

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In an asymmetrical world.

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Intelligence Officers are responsible

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for ensuring their commanders
are well-informed on the

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ground, in the air, or on the seas.

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They must understand operating
environments as events unfold.

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and lead their teams
to collect information,

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including weather, terrain,
enemy forces, people,

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and politics.

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<v ->Intelligence is really
a critical function</v>

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because really we work hand
in hand with operations.

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Our job is to essentially
provide them the information

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necessary to make their decisions.

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<v ->Collecting intelligence is
both an art and a science.</v>

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Intelligence officers
use computerised tools

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to help their teams analyse
massive amounts of information.

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<v ->The first step is direction.</v>

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We, talk to our commanders

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and understand what the problems are.

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The second thing we do is collection.

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So we go out and gather

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that information that we're looking for.

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So that could be humint,

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someone on the ground asking questions.

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That could be ISR, so a
UAV platform up in the air,

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or that could be a satellite

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that is just basically
flying around the earth.

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And so we basically try
to pick the best sensor

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to answer the question
that we're looking at.

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And then the last step is we
disseminate that information

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to the people who need to know.

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<v ->Intelligence Officers must
also use their instincts</v>

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and training to evaluate situations.

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<v ->Intelligence is only
as good as it is timely.</v>

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If we take all the time in the world

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to get the answer right,
sometimes it might be too late.

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So we have to try to find

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and strike a balance between
getting the right information

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and getting the information fast enough.

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<v ->Intelligence Officers
do a lot of writing</v>

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and will find themselves
conveying information

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to a very senior audience
early in their careers.

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They must become comfortable quickly

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and feel confident about the
information they present.

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<v ->What I'm trying to do is
essentially provide the commander</v>

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with the information he
needs to make his decision.

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And his decision could
be, do I fly today or not?

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Or it could be, do I attack
today? Or how do I attack?

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So really we're basically providing the

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decisional superiority.

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So we're trying to basically
make sure that they are able

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to make decisions better
than the enemy commanders.

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For me, I think the most interesting part

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of my career was when
I was deployed recently

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and I was in charge of an
organisation that was responsible

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for full motion video analysis.

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So we basically took the
videos that were coming off

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of the different unmanned
aerial vehicles in the theatre

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and we got to analyse them.

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And so I was in charge
of about 80 people doing

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that analysis and basically
directly helping the war

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fighters on the ground to
figure out what was happening in

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that area of operations

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Intelligence,

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one of the things I
appreciate is just that I get

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to learn about everything

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and learn about, you know,
what's happening in the world.

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I just kind of really enjoy the aspect of,

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you know, figuring it out.

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And when I have a question,

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I don't always have the
information at hand,

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and so I have to figure out
how do I get that information.

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And so that to me is really gratifying

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because I get to
basically figure out plans

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and problem solve every day.

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I think the piece of advice

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that I would offer someone
who's thinking about a career in

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the Canadian forces and in
intelligence in particular, is

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that if you enjoy, you know,
knowing about the world,

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if you enjoy research,

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then this is probably the career for you.

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Being curious about the world would lead

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to success in this trade.