The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The U.S. Intelligence Community and the U.S. policy-aquisition-operations communities do not think in these holistic terms. That is a strategic error of huge proportions.
Most policy makers are very poorly read and life a life, to quote Madeline Albright, as “gerbils on a wheel.” The ignorance, bias, and helplessness of good people in a bad system cannot be exaggerated. The U.S. Government specifically is not trained, equipped, or organized to “do” intelligence (decision-support) across all topics leveraging all information in all languages all the time.
