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
Lieutenant General (Retired) Michael Flynn and the Iranian Nuclear Agreement
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