Fixing Intel: Implementing MG Flynn's SOICs
Taken from al Sahwa blogsite a commentary: http://al-sahwa.blogspot.com/2010/03...mg-flynns.html
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A recent report written by the RC-West SOIC Director provides an excellent summary of their efforts to stand up one of these SOICs in Western Afghanistan.
There is a potential problem with the report al Sahwa cites, 'The Stability Operations Information Center (SOIC) Comprehensive Understanding for Comprehensive Operations' by Regional Command (RC) West SOIC Director; there are two copies available via Google: on Cryptome:http://cryptome.org/dodi/af-soic-2010.pdf and ScribD (which SWC does not use). Neither has clear markings as to released to the public and some diagrams used are marked Unclassified / FOUO (the lowest US classification?).
The report and commentary are a reasonable read and will read again to follow better.
We found the enemy, and he's our guy
Dexter Filkins' latest in NYT indicates that the decision has been made to keep Wali Karzai, then do the best "short-term" fix we can in Kandahar to work around him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/wo...ai.html?src=mv
You just can't make this stuff up.
Flynn and the Prospects for Defense Intelligence Reform
Flynn and the Prospects for Defense Intelligence Reform
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Flynn interview: a mixture is best
Well that is my take-away thought, from a short interview of MG Flynn, DIA and just one Q&A to whet the appetite:
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Defense One: Given what we know of the National Security Agency’s massive signals intelligence gathering as a result of the leaks of former contractor Edward Snowden, is there a danger that the human intelligence side of the equation has gotten shortchanged?
Flynn: Well, I will just tell you that the best signals intelligence I have ever seen -- and I have seen an awful lot -- was enabled by human intelligence. The very best signals intelligence is usually the result of someone capable and brave enough to develop access that we otherwise would not have had. And that has led to a lot of successes.
Link:http://www.defenseone.com/management...ation%20Report
Cyber, intell in 'infant stages' of cooperation
A very short report on a speech @ Brookings, made this week by LG Flynn:
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It's important that we leverage the technology in a smart way to understand what it is that's happening at the [tactical] edge and make, to a degree, the edge the center....Cyber is a new domain, and over a third of the world is connected somehow. Five hundred million people on Twitter, a billion people on Facebook, all this volume of activity -- [there is] a lot of noise. Inside the military, there's still a tendency to think of intelligence and cyber as the same. It's not like that at all.
Link:http://fcw.com/articles/2013/11/21/c...operation.aspx
Flynn & his No.2 exit DIA
I am sure "over the water" there is more reporting than this, but this FP article appears to be a reasonable explanation:http://complex.foreignpolicy.com/pos...r_rocky_tenure
Disruptive, sage and now former soldier
The last official interview given by MG Michael Flynn:http://breakingdefense.com/2014/08/f...ith-a-warning/
Out of Uniform and Into the Political Fray
A FP comment as Mr Flynn comments on policy and for some comes close to a "chalk line". For me viewable:https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/19...litical-fray/?
Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Nothing like a headline to catch one's attention and yes again ret'd General Flynn sallies forth. This time in a 'Head to Head' interview on Al-Jazeera, due to be broadcast 31st July 2015. Meantime here is a "taster":http://pr.aljazeera.com/post/1242308...ood-al-jazeera
Asked if drone strikes tend to create more terrorists than they kill, Flynn replied:
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I don’t disagree with that..I think as an overarching strategy, it’s a failed strategy. What we have is this continued investment in conflict....The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just… fuels the conflict. Some of that has to be done but I’m looking for the other solutions.
Lieutenant General (Retired) Michael Flynn and the Iranian Nuclear Agreement
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MG Flynn book coming in July 2016
From an FP email:
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Retired U.S. Army general Michael T. Flynn, the
outspoken and at times controversial former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has signed a deal with St. Martin’s Press to write a book entitled “The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies,” due out in July 2016.
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statement that came with Wednesday’s announcement, Flynn said he’s writing the book “to show that the war is being waged against us by enemies this administration has forbidden us to describe: radical Islamists.” He also wants to “lay out a winning strategy that is not passively relying on technology and drone attacks to do the job. We could lose this war; in fact, right now we are losing. The Field of Fight will give me [sic] view on how to win.”
I did note, probably a week ago, some hostile tweets that he had had appeared on RT as a "talking head".
We are heading for a ‘big war’
"Stranger than fiction", the media outlet, not the content. No it is true and IIRC ret'd General Tim Flynn, who retired from the DIA, has previously spoken to Russian outlets - RT?
Link:http://rbth.com/international/2016/0...big-war_559171
Mike Flynn and the “Howling Waste”
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He’s still shouting that the war is not over
Fascinating article, no doubt prompted by his support of Donald Trump:http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...general-214362
It ends with:
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For his part, Mike Flynn admits to a sense of deep frustration as he walks through airports these days and sees soldiers patted on the back by an American public and politicians who long ago abandoned the fight. He’s still shouting that the war is not over, and the only way Flynn knows to bring those soldiers all the way home, and keep faith with those who never made it back, is to find a way to win it.
Within is a passage on 'talking with the enemy', AQ in Iraq, which I don't recall being public:
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As JSOC’s director of intelligence, Flynn interrogated the senior Al Qaeda commanders at length. Sitting across from them at the detainee screening facility at Balad Air Base, Iraq, Flynn wondered why such obviously educated and intelligent people were devoting themselves to tearing their country apart, regardless of the horrendous toll in innocent lives.
“Over the course of all those interrogations, I concluded that ‘core Al Qaeda’ wasn’t actually comprised of human beings, but rather it was an ideology with a particular version of Islam at its center,” Flynn said in the recent interview. “More than a religion, this ideology encompasses a political belief system, because its adherents want to rule things—whether it’s a village, a city, a region or an entire ‘caliphate.’ And to achieve that goal, they are willing to use extreme violence. The religious nature of that threat makes it very hard for Americans to come to grips with.”
Amost stranger than fiction. I cannot recall any similar exchange in WW2, leaving aside "listening to the enemy" and the politeness shown at surrender ceremonies. Nor in post-1945 conflicts.