Graphic: Linear versus Diamond Paradigm

First presented in Canada in 1994, this was the first depiction of how out-of-date the existing government intelligence communities are.  They are hierarchical Weberian stove-pipes out of touch with reality and anyone who is actually steeped in reality. The old intelligence paradigm is on the left–a very controlled hierarchical stovepipe process that is best characterized …

Graphic: Threat Level Changes Depending on the Level of Analysis

Hard to believe, but we are not making this up.  The U.S. Intelligence Community still does not routinely depict threats in relation to the level of analysis, only in absolute terms and generally in worst-case technical threat terms assuming idealized scenarios favoring the enemy.  And when that is not good enough, field grade officers are …