Comments on: USDI Seeks Af-Pak Intel Holy Grail

By: kevin

kevin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:02:41 +0000

should n,t the CIA be doing there Jobs and prevent info about the U.S from leaking to other counties . I think the whole administration is not looking at the big issues.

By: Garry Owen

Garry Owen — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:40:40 +0000

What happens if someone in another government starts leaking intelligengce from the U.S. to other contries? Perhaps if the CIA were allowed to do their job a lot of the intelligence would already be collected!

By: @TwiTuts

@TwiTuts — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:03:41 +0000

The point is, no Colonel or General wants to be told how to do something by a "civilian" securty guy. The problem is not so much how to do it, but how to do it right. DoD needs to change its culture of arrogance at the higher levels and listen to the troops and specialists on the ground. Mimeblogger

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:51:54 +0000

What happens to many times is that someone’s ego gets in the way. They want to get all the credit and give nothing away causing injuries and death because that person wants all the glory and does not share inte.

By: Chief Houston

Chief Houston — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:20:32 +0000

This seems to be making the concept of teamwork focused exponentially. The next step is to insure that enough practice time is underbelt to initiate a practice game. Then league play, then semi-finals, etc., before this baby sees the light of day. Helmet fire overload is a reality so the access to this level of info has to be determined and the recepients well trained.

By: FDO

FDO — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:14:25 +0000

All military and intelligence organizations have experts that specialize in this. Its call International Security or Foreign Disclosure. The problem is that most Foreign Disclosure Officers (FDO) are experienced civilian Security Specialists .…. they are intelligence professionals yes, under the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) who can and do deploy into the combat zone with the troops, but they are still “civilian” U.S. government employees in the eyes of the active duty force. The point is, no Colonel or General wants to be told how to do something by a “civilian” securty guy. The problem is not so much how to do it, but how to do it right. DoD needs to change its culture of arrogance at the higher levels and listen to the troops and specialists on the ground. This proposal is totally doable, but it all hinges on the “Generals” listening to people who are smarter than they are in this area.

By: ronnie pond

ronnie pond — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:27:42 +0000

There is also the fact that too much information can be dangerous too. We don’t know for sure just who is telling whom what???. It seems that the Taliban gets some pretty good info from some where??? in order to set up their ambushes. And I don’t trust the Pakistan are the Afghanistan Goverments any more then I trust the Taliban!!!.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:51:07 +0000

Can anyone say “Information Overload” — it is quite simply to collect all the data available and provide all that data to every user who needs it. Even if all the ‘available’ data could be collected (which I doubt), the total is far too much for anyone to sift through without both automated and manual filtering.

Factor in the simple fact that users do not know (and cannot know) exactly what data will turn out to be useful.

For any military operation, there will ALWAYS have been some small piece of information that WOULD HAVE made a difference if only the leaders had known about it — but there is simply no way to know in advance what that key piece of information will be. And no way to sift through all the possible information in a timely manner.

By: Baffled1

Baffled1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:37:01 +0000

The Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force have all been trying to come with this for years and have been stymied by Congressional roadblocks, technical challenges, NIMBY attitudes, and SWAP issues. And these are not the least of the problems. If one man can solve this problem in 90 days, then we will all be baffled beyond our most incredulous dreams. LOL