Integrated Intelligence Key To Combating Dynamic Threats
The authors are James Clapper (DNI) and Marcel Lettre (USDI).
The Latest: NATO Allies to Create Joint Intel Division
ROBERT STEELE: The new ASG-I&S at NATO will be a political bureaucrat going through the motions and pushing expensive technical systems largely irrelevant to NATO's needs for strategic, operational, tactical, and technical intelligence. The chances of NATO ever acquiring intelligence with integrity in its present configuration are zero.In 1989 General Al Gray called for a revolution in intelligence focused on emerging threats, followed by my own explicit detailing of what needed to change to make US intelligence relevant and effective going forward. In 1992 the USMC tried to get the National Intelligence Topics (NIT) changed to focus on the Third World and emerging threats. This new NATO initiative is exactly 26 years — just over a quarter-century — too little too late. See also the comments of BGen Dr. James Cox, himself the former Deputy J-2 of NATO. What the world still need is an Open Source (Technologies) Agency that includes an all-source Multinational Inter-Agency Decision-Support Centre. Anything less in business as usual.
See Especially:
Gray, Al (Ghost-Written by Robert Steele), “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s,” American Intelligence Journal, Winter 1989-1990, pp. 37-41.
Steele, Robert. “Intelligence in the 1990’s: Recasting National Security in a Changing World,” American Intelligence Journal, Summer/Fall 1990, pp. 29-36.
Steele, Robert. “Applying the ‘New Paradigm’: How to Avoid Strategic Intelligence Failures in the Future,” American Intelligence Journal, Autumn 1991, pp. 43-46.
Steele, Robert. “Intelligence Support for Expeditionary Planners,” Marine Corps Gazette, September 1991, pp. 73-79.
Steele, Robert, “Intelligence for the President–AND Everyone Else,” CounterPunch, March 1, 2009.
Steele, Robert. “On Defense Intelligence: Seven Strikes,” CounterPunch, July 2, 2014.
See Also:
2016 Robert Steele on OSINT – Why and How
Robert Steele: Open Source (Technologies) Agency
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Who Is Robert Steele (Bios & Publications)
