Train as a military intelligence operator for the modern battlespace
Reserve units are expected to integrate at a moment's notice, yet too many deploy without a confident grasp of core MI skills. The MIOC fills that gap — building practical, mission-ready operators who can collect, assess, and brief with confidence when it counts.
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The Problem
Reserve units are expected to integrate. Most can't.
Reserve units are expected to integrate at a moment's notice, yet too many deploy without a confident grasp of core MI skills. The training gap is real — and it costs time, credibility, and operational effectiveness.
Demand is broader than the reserves. Practitioners across disciplines want to go deeper on live and emerging conflicts. MI gives the foundation for analytical success: clear tasking, disciplined collection, structured assessment, and confident delivery.
The MIOC gives operators the fundamentals and the repetitions they need to slot in, add value fast, and lift the team.
Multi-domain threats
Adversaries operating simultaneously across land, cyber, space, and the information environment
Hybrid warfare
Blurring lines between conventional operations, irregular forces, and grey-zone activities
Tempo demands
Decision cycles compressing from days to hours. Intelligence must match operational speed.
Who This Is For
Built for operators, not academics
Military personnel
Serving regulars and reservists who need to collect, assess, and brief with confidence on integration
Conflict trackers & practitioners
Go deeper on live and emerging conflicts with the disciplined MI foundation for analytical success
Analysts seeking continuation development
Structured training to sharpen your tradecraft — suitable from motivated beginners to working practitioners
Syllabus Overview
What the MIOC covers
8 weeks. Weekly rhythm of learning drop, practical task, and live session. Each COG builds toward the capstone.
Content aligned to contemporary MI doctrine and TTPs
Military Intelligence Fundamentals
Purpose and roles, the COIST, the intelligence cycle, contemporary operating environment, core doctrine
Training Environment & Adversary Basics
Course systems and tools, theatre orientation, principles of warfare, OPFOR doctrine
Symbology Package
Military mapping and symbology for common operating pictures and briefs
Conventional IPOE/IPB
Step 1–4 workflow, AO/AI and significant characteristics, terrain and weather effects, threat ORBAT and capabilities, ML/MD COAs. Outputs tied to Exercise Sino Steel.
Unconventional IPOE/IPB
Human terrain and systems views, non-linear threat patterns, COA development for irregular actors. Outputs tied to Exercise Puller I–IV.
Intelligence Collection
PIRs and indicators, collection planning, RFIs, SIGINT and HUMINT basics, structured OSINT
Analysis Package
Information evaluation and grading, fusion concepts, key assumptions checks and bias mitigation, structured analytic techniques
Produce and Disseminate
Writing BLUF-led assessments, estimative language and confidence statements, verbal updates, briefing and debriefing
Capstone: Exercise Jade Dragon
Full scenario integration with written products, briefs, AARs, and performance assessment. Everything you've learned, applied under pressure.
Key Details
What to expect
Length & Tempo
8 weeks. Weekly rhythm of learning drop, practical task, and live session. Steady tempo building toward the capstone.
Delivery
In-person course with live components. Optional remote pre-reads and post-session refreshers. Online first, in-person options TBC.
Workload
5 to 7 hours per week including reading, prep, and short written products. 1 to 2 contact hours per week in person.
Assessment
Scenario-based exercises producing written assessments and short briefs. Clear marking guides, AARs after every exercise, and one capstone evaluation.
Cohort Size
16 to 24 per cohort to keep coaching tight and discussion useful. Group and unit pricing available.
Materials & Tools
Templates, checklists, reporting guides, map pack, and a scenario handbook. Standard office apps, mapping references, and open-source resources.
Prerequisites
Professional writing basics and comfort with maps. We provide primers on core knowledge. No prior MI experience required.
Credential
Certificate of Competency on successful completion. Statement of learning outcomes included for your record.
Pass Criteria
Meet product standards, demonstrate tradecraft, and brief confidently with stated confidence levels. Rework opportunities provided where useful.
Founding Member Pre-Sale
Join the MIOC at a fraction of the full price
This is exactly how we built the IACC. Founding members get in early at a heavily discounted rate, learn as we build, and shape the course with their feedback.
You join at founding member pricing
Lock in $399 — a one-time payment. This is the lowest the MIOC will ever be priced. Full price will be $1,399+ at general release.
Learn as we build
You get access to modules as they're completed and released. No waiting for the entire course to be finished — start learning immediately as content rolls out.
Your feedback shapes the course
As a founding member, you have a direct line to influence content, exercises, and delivery. The course is built with your input — not in isolation.
Graduate with the same certification
When the course is complete, you hold the exact same credential as someone who pays full price. Plus lifetime access to all future updates.
The IACC was built exactly this way. Early founding members joined at a discount, provided feedback as the course was developed, and helped shape what became an IAFIE-certified, 4.9/5 rated course with 200+ graduates across 25+ countries. Those founding members still have lifetime access and hold the same certification as everyone else.
Founding Member
- ✓Full course access — every module, exercise, and assessment
- ✓POET access — live exercise platform with real-time injects and multi-INT collection
- ✓OpenSATs access — 10 structured analytical techniques
- ✓Certification on completion — identical to full-price graduates
- ✓Lifetime access — including all updates and future improvements
- ✓Direct feedback channel — influence the course as it's built
- ✓Instructor access — Q&A calls, mentoring, and support
- ✓Community access — founding member cohort
This is the lowest price the MIOC will ever be. When the course launches at full price, founding members keep their access and certification — no additional cost, ever.
IACC vs MIOC
How the MIOC differs from the IACC
| IACC | MIOC | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | All-source intelligence analysis | Military intelligence operations |
| Audience | Analysts across all sectors | Military operators and support personnel |
| Analysis depth | Strategic & operational analytical techniques | Conventional & unconventional IPOE/IPB, structured analytic techniques |
| Collection | Collection theory and planning | PIRs, indicators, collection planning, RFIs, SIGINT/HUMINT basics, OSINT |
| Products | Intelligence assessments and reports | BLUF-led assessments, confidence statements, verbal updates, briefs |
| Delivery | Self-paced online | 8 weeks, in-person with live components, 5–7 hrs/week |
| Tools | OpenSATs (10 SATs) | POET (live exercise platform) + OpenSATs |
| Capstone | Operation Resolute Horizon | Exercise Jade Dragon — full scenario integration under pressure |
Your Instructor
Cole Proebstel — Director, ALCON Intelligence
ALCON Intelligence is led by Cole Proebstel, a New Zealand Army veteran with years of experience across military and civilian intelligence roles. Cole and the team specialise in practical, scenario-based training that lifts unit capability.
Cole has supported conventional forces, contemporary operations, and special operations across real missions and training environments. That experience shapes how ALCON teaches, plans, and prepares operators to integrate under pressure.
He built the Intelligence Analyst Certification Course (IACC) — now one of only a handful of IAFIE-certified courses in the world, with 200+ graduates across 25+ countries. The MIOC brings that same standard to the military intelligence operator.
From the creators of the IACC
A proven track record in intelligence training
The MIOC is built by the same team behind the IACC — the highest-rated intelligence certification course available.
"The scenario exercises were the closest thing to real intelligence work I've experienced outside of an actual agency. Cole clearly knows this craft inside and out — you can tell the course was designed by someone who's done the job."
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Founding member pricing won't last. When the MIOC launches at full price, this rate disappears permanently.
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Frequently asked questions
Founding members join the MIOC at a heavily discounted pre-sale price ($399 vs $1,399+ at full launch). You receive modules as they're built, provide feedback that directly shapes the course, and upon completion you receive the same certification and lifetime access as full-price students. This is exactly how we built the IACC — our founding members still have full access today.
You'll start receiving modules as they're completed and released throughout 2026. This is a "learn as we build" model — you're not waiting for the entire course to be finished. You'll be notified each time new content drops and can work through it at your own pace.
Yes. The $399 founding member price is a concept validation offer. When the MIOC launches at general availability, the price will be $1,399 or higher — consistent with the IACC. Founding members lock in $399 permanently with no future charges, ever.
The IACC focuses on all-source intelligence analysis across all sectors. The MIOC is specifically designed for military intelligence operators — covering conventional and unconventional IPOE/IPB, collection planning, symbology, analysis, and producing BLUF-led assessments and briefs. Think of the IACC as analyst training and the MIOC as operator training. They're complementary.
No prior MI experience is required. The course is suitable for motivated beginners through to working practitioners who want structure. You'll need professional writing basics and comfort with maps — we provide primers on core knowledge. The audience includes military personnel, conflict trackers, and analysts seeking continuation development.
POET (Persistent Operating Environment Trainer) is our live exercise platform — real-time intelligence injects, multi-INT collection, and NATO source grading in a simulated intelligence cell. OpenSATs is a toolkit of 10 structured analytical techniques including ACH, Link Analysis, Timeline Analysis, and Threat Matrix. Both are included with the MIOC and power the course exercises.
Even better. The IACC gives you the analytical foundation; the MIOC builds your military operator skills on top. The courses are designed to be complementary. IACC graduates will find the MIOC extends their capability into military-specific operations, products, and environments.
