Photo: Taliban fighters pose with weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan in this October 30, 2009 file photo. (ABC News Photo Illustration)Spies Like Us: Top U.S. Intel Officer Says Spooks Could Learn From Journos -- The Danger Room
American intelligence in Afghanistan is broken, says the top U.S. intelligence officer there. That’s because it focuses too much on whacking Taliban, and not enough on figuring out Afghanistan’s social and cultural landscapes. But the report from Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, the top intelligence aide to International Security Assistance Force Commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, raises lots of other issues, too. Like, what happened to the military’s “human terrain” programs to map those landscapes? Can spies really perform better if they think and work like journalists? And why is this report being publicly distributed through a think tank?
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More News On Intelligence Failures In Afghanistan
Coalition urged to revamp intelligence gathering, distribution in Afghanistan -- Washington Post
U.S. Retools Military Intelligence -- Wall Street Journal
Pentagon calls spy critique "irregular" -- Reuters
Military Intelligence Chief Orders Reorganization -- U.S. News And World Report
Ignorant CIA should copy Raj agents to avoid failure says spy chief -- Times Online
Our Afghan intelligence failure -- Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian
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