How Intelligence Works (When it Does)

Thank you for posting this piece. Probably one of the most astute breakdowns of how intelligence can be used to forward policy goals - if used correctly. It's what they taught us in 35M school - you need to ask the right questions in the right way.

Great Piece ... and Most informative...

..."... Turning this raw material into first-rate intelligence will require the active participation of our country’s best geo-strategic experts in think tanks, universities, corporations, and increasingly the blogosphere. Directors Coats and Pompeo should recruit the ones they can, and be in close touch with the others. This doesn’t mean agreeing with everything these experts say and write. It means listening to them and blending their information and insights with what’s been gathered covertly, in order to reach the clearest, most accurate conclusions about what’s happening now and what’s likely to happen in the future. ..."...

Thanks for sharing my friend SP5 Mark Kuzinski a open-source summary of how intelligence works.