Reflections on US Decision-Making
LinkedIn, 27 October 2014
Since 1990, when I first itemized six things that US intelligence needed to do in order to better serve the USA, I have been persistently troubled by the lack of leadership and the lack of integrity in this profession that I consider so fundamental to creating a prosperous country at peace with itself as well as the rest of the world.
Here are the six initiatives I proposed in my article, 1990 Intelligence in the 1990′s – Six Challenges [it complements the article I ghost-wrote for the Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1989 Al Gray (US) on Global Intelligence Challenges:
01 Meet the Needs of ALL Public Programs.
02 Indications & Warnings of Revolutionary Change
03 New Theory & Method of Counterintelligence
04 Developing an Information Technology Strategy
05 Establish a Responsive Requirements System
06 Realign Resources in an Era of Radical Change
Today, 24 years later and no less than $1.2 trillion dollars down the drain, most of it spent on technical collection (mass surveillance) that is not actually processed, not a single one of these six fundamentals has been addressed with integrity.
