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Thinking Before Shooting: Intelligence and Special Operations
« on: February 08, 2020, 11:44:10 am »
 Thinking Before Shooting: Intelligence and Special Operations
by Steve Balestrieri 

The attacks of 9/11, which seem so long ago, caught the United States by surprise. There were some warning signs that were missed by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies but pointing the finger isn’t the purpose here. The last 16 years have seen our forces fighting a different kind of war, with a different set of parameters. But we shouldn’t forget the hard lessons learned through the decades of the Cold War. Because we’re going to need them.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, our intelligence agencies were gutted. Some ex-CIA operatives in the media have opined that as many as 1,000 trained operatives left the agency in the aftermath as budgets were being cut and clandestine-trained operatives were leaving in droves. Alex Finley, a former CIA operative, wrote an interesting piece where she talked about the need for the return of the Cold War espionage tactics.

https://sofrep.com/specialoperations/importance-intelligence-operations-special-operations-missions/