In military planning, which statement best describes the transformation from information to intelligence?

• A. The transformation is the reverse.
• B. Information becomes intelligence after being processed into raw data.
• C. Intelligence is analyzed, actionable information used to decide; information is raw data.
• D. Information and intelligence are interchangeable.

Answer: (C)

The main idea is that data starts as raw, unprocessed facts, and through analysis those facts are turned into intelligence—actionable, decision-ready insights. Information organizes and presents raw data in a meaningful way, but intelligence is what results after analysts evaluate, validate, and fuse that information with context and credibility to support planning and decisions. So, information is raw data, and intelligence is the analyzed, actionable product used to decide.

The other statements don’t fit because they either reverse the order (turning intelligence back into raw data), misstate the sequence (saying information becomes intelligence after being processed into raw data, which confuses raw data with processed information), or treat information and intelligence as interchangeable (implying no distinction between input data and decision-ready insight).