Community Intelligence: All Guides

All 6 Fortune Favors the Prepared guides on community intelligence, grouped by topic. Each one opens in a new tab.

Situational Awareness

Your Neighborhood Is Your Best Source

When official channels are delayed, absent, or filtered, the community around you becomes your primary intelligence source. Area Intelligence, ASAR, and community SITREP discipline.

Area Intelligence — Now! Area-Specific Assessment Report (ASAR) Community SITREP Radio Traffic Situational Analysis

Reporting Formats

SALUTE, SPOT, SALT, and HUMINT

Standardized reporting formats exist for a reason: they eliminate ambiguity, capture what matters, and allow others to act on your observation without interpretation errors.

SALUTE, SPOT, and SALT Reports Human Intelligence (HUMINT)

Related training

Every intelligence topic, the daily reports and the sector briefs are on the Intelligence page.

Intelligence

Turn observations into reports with the free Message Formatter & Traffic Log: SALUTE, SPOT, SALT, SITREP and Community SITREP forms, ready to read, print or send. All the formats are in Field Report Formats.

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