ABSTRACT
In the last chapter, I discussed the reason why biometrics is a critical enabler to military operations. Assuming that the reader has accepted that proposition and is still with me, I’ll move on in this chapter with an overview of some the basic concepts that underlie the use of biometrics on the battlefield, such as the difference between “identification” and “verification” using biometrics, the broad mission types that biometrics can support, biometrics modalities and matching, the relationships between biometrics and forensics, and biometrics and intelligence, and data sharing and communications. My intent is to provide enough detail on these issues to support the rest of the book, not to make the reader a biometrics expert. More in-depth information on many of the topics is included in the appendices.
