Cultural Intelligence & Intelligence and Culture (catch all)

[William F. Owen]

Is there friction between (America's) military culture and effective intelligence collection, analysis, and dissemination? I understand that the nature of war itself does not necessarily lend itself to optimal intelligence operations in all cases, so I am curious if we are in many ways making our job more difficult through bias, perceptions, and expectations of the role, nature, usefulness, and methods of intelligence work.

There is nothing wrong with American culture, and it will have no impact on the nations conduct of intelligence activities.
Being lazy, stupid and/or poorly trained will have a greater impact. Essentially if there is a problem with US Intelligence, then is about the people working in it. Nothing to do with culture. Did US "culture" put men on the moon?
"Intelligence" is about selecting the right people for the right job. If that isn't held to be central to doctrine and practice, you will always have a problem.