Phi Beta Iota: The US Intelligence Community (both civilian and military) still has not accepted the fact that 60% of its effort should be focused on Global Coverage (e.g. the Third World and the non-military high-level threats to humanity) and on relevant information and tailored intelligence necessary to support Stabilization & Reconstruction Operations as well as what General Al Gray, USMC (Ret), then Commandant of the Marine Corps, called “peaceful preventive measures.” See also:
1989 General Al Gray on Global Intelligence Challenges
2002 Wheaton (US) Transitions From Authoritarian Rule: An Iterative Model
Uncomfortable Wars Revisited (International and Security Affairs Series) (Hardcover)
Review: Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Review: Who Speaks For Islam?–What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
