Tom Ricks' blog includes the following commentary from a major working on counterterrorism issues at the Pentagon:

We are currently involved in an insurgency in Afghanistan against a force that is routinely better informed than US forces. The enemy provides a painful example of doing more with less. What's that you say? In the age of information dominance are we not the standard bearers for information gathering and sharing at the speed of light? Yes, we are in the academic sense of having forms to fill out, processes to follow, and more systems than we can efficiently use. We must be dominant because we have a line and block diagram for every occasion. Unfortunately, we focus on the form far more than the function of intelligence.
The entire piece is available using the link below:

http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts...uck_here_s_why