Intelligence

The United States is spending over $40,000,000,000.00 a year on intelligence, why is the United States not able to create actionable intelligence?

No amount of training can prepare you to hunt down terrorists when the intelligence you receive does not pinpoint their hideouts. Actionable intelligence is being able to look for a needle on a platter instead of being able to look for a needle in a haystack or between a precise mission and an indefinite mission requiring long periods of time on hostile territory.

With actionable intelligence comes comprehensive intelligence. Who are their leaders? How do they plan? How do they carry out operations? How are they organized? What methods are used for recruitment? What are their weaknesses and vulnerabilities? .....

With comprehensive intelligence comes local intelligence. Local intelligence is collected block by block and must be organized and staffed to identify armed group strengths, to identify armed group weaknesses, and to identify armed group vulnerabilities. Local intelligence must also be organized and staffed to turn local intelligence into operational opportunities.

The United Kingdom and Israel have learned that competitive intelligence involves time, money, men, and patience. Putting competitive intelligence into practice means utilizing all the tools in the intelligence toolbox - collection, analysis, covert action, and counterintelligence. Operational opportunities care of competitive intelligence involves targeted killings, interdiction of arms, interdiction of money, denial of safe houses, and denial of safe territory.

To identify capabilities and intentions requires human intelligence, electronic surveillance alone will not do.

Competitive intelligence is also done by seamlessly joining analysts and operators. Definite boundaries between analytical divisions and operational divisions will not do. Competitive intelligence also involves combining and making assessable intelligence for operational opportunities. Operational opportunities also can not have definite boundaries between one division of government and another division of government.