| Description |
26 pages : digital, PDF file |
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Working paper |
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Working paper (Center for a New American Security)
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| Contents |
Executive summary -- All politics is local : tactical intel equals strategic intel -- Intel at the grassroots : the battalion and below -- Regiments and brigades must fight to be relevant -- COIN warfare calls for COIN analysts -- Stability operations information centers -- Information at the regional commands -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"This paper ... critically examines the relevance of the U.S. intelligence community to counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan. Based on discussions with hundreds of people inside and outside the intelligence community, it recommends sweeping changes to the way the intelligence community thinks about itself -- from a focus on the enemy to a focus on the people of Afghanistan. The paper argues that because the United States has focused the overwhelming majority of collection efforts and analytical brainpower on insurgent groups, our intelligence apparatus still finds itself unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which we operate and the people we are trying to protect and persuade. This problem or its consequences exist at every level of the U.S. intelligence hierarchy, and pivotal information is not making it to those who need it. The answer is to build a process from the sensor all the way to the political decision makers. This need spans the 44 nations involved with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). This paper is the blueprint for that process. It describes the problem, details the changes and illuminates examples of units that are "getting it right." It is aimed at commanders as well as intelligence professionals, in Afghanistan and in the United States and Europe."--Page 4 |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 5, 2010) |
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"Voices from the field." |
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"January 2010." |
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Series from web site |
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Preserved in the OCLC Digital Archive. Harvested from http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/AfghanIntel_Flynn_Jan2010_code507_voices.pdf on Jan. 5, 2010 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-26) |
| Notes |
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Military intelligence -- Afghanistan
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Military intelligence
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Intelligence service -- United States.
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Information warfare.
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Information warfare.
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Intelligence service.
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Military intelligence.
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Afghanistan.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pottinger, Matt.
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Batchelor, Paul.
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Center for a New American Security.
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