The War on Terrorism is the new battlefield, with new rule sets, challenges, and concerns. If one does really consider terrorism to be the new modern battlefield, intelligence is a major role in developing effective and productive national security and strategic applications. Military strategist Sun Tzu wrote that "what is called foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits, nor from gods, nor by analog with past events, nor from calculations. It must be obtained from men who know the enemy situation."
Hardly a day goes by without soundbytes on the War on Terrorism. These soundbytes, according to the marketers, come from sources that have government and/ or certifications to prove their competency. This sounds and looks excellent on paper, but this requirement could be skewed to favor bias and alienate perspective. These marketers fail to note that certifications and/ or college degree(s) does not make a person any more competent than a professional. Contrary to the interests of certification and testing institutions, and higher education institutions, nearly anyone can pass a test and what matters is how they perform in the workroom, not how they perform in the classroom.
George Orwell wrote that if you preach something loud and often enough, you can get folks to believe it as truth, no matter how far fetched the message. Those that accept soundbytes on the War on Terrorism, will never be able to discuss and/ or implement effective and productive national security and strategic applications. They are basing their intelligence on soundbytes from sources that have never set their spirit, mind, and body in the workroom and/ or battlefield and only know the enemy by what they've read and/ or heard about them. That is dangerous, no matter what workroom and/ or battlefield you are on.
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