The importance of Counterintelligence in Force Protection.But we must first clearly remove the confusion between HUMINT and Counterintelligence ..we can then only apply either to their specific service domains.We will see that Counterintelligence is a HUMINT-asset based war-fighting domain , not a subset of HUMINT..more importantly it is the Commanders tool to penetrate the enemy's decision making cycle.For Force Protection it is INDISPENSABLE.