Current jokes to the contrary, Military Intelligence is far from an oxymoronat least when it comes to the military intelligence service.

 MI's job is to figure out where the enemy is, what he's doing, and with whom he's doing it.

 The trick is to take a lot of seemingly unrelated information gathered by many sources (snippets of radio conversations from radio intercept specialists, patterns of electronic activity gathered from Electronic intelligence (ELINT) units, pictures from Air Force photo recon units, and reports from infantry and armored cavalry patrols) and put together as coherent as possible a picture of what the enemy is doing.

 Enlisted men in this branch are generally technicians, doing a specific, although highly skilled function (intercepting a certain type of radio communication, interrogating POW's, operating ELINT equipment, and, in the case of Counterintelligence people, serving as investigators, checking out leads and staking out enemy intelligence service's safe houses, and advising friendly units on how NOT to give information to the enemy.

 Officers, except for "agents", are generally involved in trying to make some sense of the little bits of information the technicians give them. (The first part of the book "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy gives one an excellent picture of what analysts in Military Intelligence do.)

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