the $40 billion a year intel bureaucracy was not delivering much of value
In Iraq, a hodge podge of geeks and reservists (many of them cops or corporate “competitive intelligence” specialists) came up with lots of new ideas about how to collect, analyze and distribute intelligence. This was usually done at the divisional or brigade level, although some battalions, and even infantry companies, have come up with their own innovations. It was innovations like this that led to the capture of Saddam Hussein, and many prominent terrorists….
The combat troops also have an immediate incentive to make their intel operations work. If they don’t, they, or people they know, could get killed.
Too bad this type of incentive doesn’t exist in the private sector.
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