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MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Information about the armed forces of another country that is useful in planning and conducting military policy or military operations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("military intelligence" is a kind of...):
intelligence; intelligence information (secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy))
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An agency of the armed forces that obtains and analyzes and uses information of strategic or tactical military value
Synonyms:
military intelligence; military intelligence agency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("military intelligence" is a kind of...):
intelligence; intelligence agency; intelligence service (a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "military intelligence"):
Defense Intelligence Agency; DIA (an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition)
