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In what is an unprecedented move during wartime, or anytime,
the top US military intelligence commander in Afghanistan has just published this public report & critique
on US intelligence operations in the Afghan theatre.Highly interesting reading for anyone trying to make sense of things there & also more broader issues surrounding
intelligence services (mainly), the military and to some degree even any other hierarchical organisations in areas from public safety (fire, police & ambulance) to business.Download the PDF here:
http://www.cnas.org/node/3924
Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan
Author(s): Major General Michael T. Flynn, Captain Matt Pottinger, Paul D. Batchelor
Type of Publication: Working Papers
Date: 01/04/2010
Download the Full Working Paper (PDF)This report critically examines the relevance of the U.S. intelligence community to the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. The authors – Major General Michael T. Flynn, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in Afghanistan; his advisor Captain Matt Pottinger; and Paul Batchelor, Senior Advisor for Civilian/Military Integrations at ISAF – argue that because the United States has focused the overwhelming majority of collection efforts and analytical brainpower on insurgent groups, the intelligence apparatus still finds itself unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which U.S. and allied forces operate in and the people they are trying to protect and persuade.
Quoting General Stanley McChrystal, the authors write that “Our senior leaders – the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, Congress, the President of the United States – are not getting the right information to make decisions with … The media is driving the issues. We need to build a process from the sensor all the way to the political decision makers.”
This report is the blueprint for that process. It describes the problem, details the changes, and illuminates examples of units that are “getting it right.” It is aimed at commanders as well as intelligence professionals in Afghanistan, the United States and Europe.
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