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1994/10/252014/05/08

1994 Brief to the National Research Council Review of the Army Multi-Billion Dollar Future Communications Architecture UPDATED Full Text Online + References

It was a privilege to be asked by the National Research Council to comment on the U.S. Army’s multi-billion dollar future communications architecture. I noticed immediately that the entire program assumed self-generated bits and bytes and made no provision, ZERO PROVISION, for acquiring and making sense of external information from anyone outside the DoD “grid.” …

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1993/07/232016/07/27

1993 Talking Points for the Director of Central Intelligence

This was faxed to John Deutch when he was DCI. It probably made it to his desk only to be dismissed as it was not from anyone remotely associated with power or money. This was the beginning of our realization, articulated in 1997 for the US Institute for Peace, that those with power know too …

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1991/09/222019/12/14

1991 How to Avoid Future Strategic Intelligence Failures

How to Avoid Future Strategic Intelligence Failures This article focuses on three concerns of mine that are central to ensuring that the restructuring effort is meaningful. First, what “sins” of strategic intelligence persist in the face of restructuring? Second, how must the nature of the individual intelligence analyst, their working conditions, and their relationship to …

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1990/07/222019/12/14

1990 Intelligence in the 1990’s – Six Challenges

Intelligence in the 1990’s: Recasting National Security in a Changing World I am constantly being asked a bottom-line defense number. I don’t know of any logical way to arrive at such a figure without analyzing the threat; without determining what changes in our strategy should be made in light of the changes in the threat; …

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1990/03/152021/03/02

1990 Expeditionary Environment Analytic Model Updated with Regional and Country Summaries

NEW: 1990 Expeditionary Environment Regional & Country Summaries General Al Gray, USMC, then Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) created the Marine Corps Intelligence Center (MCIC) at the same time that he created the Marine Corps University (MCU). He was guided by the reality that the larger serices–the Army, Navy, and Air Force–devoted all of …

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1989/07/052019/12/14

1989 General Al Gray with Robert Steele on Global Intelligence Challenges

General Gray was known as a warrior, but he was also an intelligence professional and uniquely among all the flag officers I have ever known, an inspiring educator. He created not just the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, but the Marine Corps University, new forms of informal research to empower younger officers and explore the “edges” …

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1957/07/042013/07/22

1957 Quincy Wright: Project for a World Intelligence Center

Quincy Wright (1890-1970) was a notable Unitarian and the author of A Study of War. For what we seek to do, and especially with respect to “Information Peacekeeping,” this is Ref A. This scholar got it, at an operational level as well as a strategic level, in 1957. We have wasted hundreds of billions of …

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