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Collective IntelligenceReview: Descent into Chaos–The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
5 Star, Cultural Intelligence, Insurgency & Revolution, Peace Intelligence
Ahmed Rashid
5 out of 5 stars Broad but Nuanced, Exudes Intelligence,Absorbing Speaking of Truth, June 17, 2009
Among the observations from the author”
1. U.S. has destabilized the world after 9-11, not made it safer.
2. Pakistan is the key to peace in the region, but the US has been totally taken in by Musharraf and his army and ISI colleagues, all of whom have played the US (easily) for the total fool.
3. “No coherence to US tactics and strategy” combined with a collapsed Cabinet system and “ruinous laws” making torture the norm.
4. Pashtuns lacked leadership on the ground for decades, a major reason why they did not counter the Taliban
5. If Pakistan is the key to peace in the region, Uzbekistan is the key to future war, mixing as it does the worst of dictatorial tyranny (I know, tautologically redundant, enjoy) with deep Islamic fundamentalism.
Reference: Irregular Immigration and the Spanish Maritime Border – The Role of Intelligence
White Papers
Gustavo Diaz Matey
1. Spanish intelligence faced with migratory phenomenon
2. The dissemination of the migratory intelligence and its application
Phi Beta Iota: This is of special interest because of the regional intelligence sharing capability set up in relation to the Canary Islands, and the general acknowledgement that Africa is no more stable today than it was before 800 million was invested by external parties. One might ask: should intelligence be proposing SOLUTIONS for the future of Africa rather than trying to stem the rising tide of illegal immigration?
Reference: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report on The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Intelligence Enterprise–Operational Overview and Oversight Challenges for Congress
Congressional Research ServiceIn our view the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) went down the wrong road, trying to create a “mini-me” secret enterprise. The Joint Fusion Centers have all collapsed because–as we anticipated and articulated–there is nothing really valuable that can be done with a one-way saline drip from the top to the bottom. Instead, DHS needs to create a robust bottom-up Community Infomration Sharing and Sense-Making Architecture, and as we have pointed out in the past, the unclassified concepts, doctirine, tools, and training are precisely analogous to what we need for multinational information sharing and sense-making for early warning, stabiliztion & reconstruction, achievement of the Millenium Goals, and so on.
Below is an excellent overview from CRS–the one failing of CRS is that they do not know what they do not know, and hence evaluate on industrial-era benchmarks rather than information-era bvenchmarks.
Follow the Frog to see our briefing to DHS Intel at the invitation of LtGen Pat Hughes, USA (Ret), the first Assistant Secretary for Intelligence there. he continue to hold him in the highest esteem, as with his successor, Charlie Allen (since retired)–when such great men fail, we must conclude that we have a pathological system, not that they lacked in any way.
