Clueless In Afghanistan: General Speaks Out -- Sydney Morning Herald
THE most senior US military intelligence officer in Afghanistan has launched a scathing attack on American information gathering.
Major-General Michael Flynn said that after eight years, the US was still unable to answer ''fundamental questions about the environment in which we operate and the people we are trying to protect and persuade''.
He said that little was being done to fully understand support for insurgents, declaring that US intelligence efforts were ''ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the power brokers are and how they might be influenced, incurious about the correlations between various development projects … and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers''.
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