1st Military Intelligence Brigade (United Kingdom)


The 1st Military Intelligence Brigade was a formation of the British Army which was formed after the 2003 Delivering Security in a Changing World reform, but in 2014 was absorbed into the new 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade.

History

After the 2003 Iraq War code-named Operation Telic, the British Army went through a period of re-organisation which would see previously independent units grouped into large rapid deployment formations. As a result of these reforms, the 1st Military Intelligence Brigade was formed in 2007 to command the military intelligence and psycological operations troops. Other new formations included the 8th Engineer Brigade and 2nd Medical Brigade. The brigade's mission was "to command OPCOM troops, and to prepare, deliver & sustain MI & PSYOPS formations in order to conduct land operations in support of Land Command and Defence tasks".
Even though the brigade never fully deployed, its sub-units did have detachments serve during Operation Telic and Operation Herrick. Under Army 2020, the brigade was formed the backbone and skeleton of the 1st Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Brigade in September 2014, with all units transferring to the new brigade.
After the brigade's integration, all military intelligence brigades joined 1 ISR Bde, there was also the formation of two new reserve battalions. The 15 Psyc Operations Group was moved under 77th Brigade, which was formed shortly after.

Organisation

Brigade organisation was: