It's not what you do, it's how you do it.
Armada International › Vol. 28 Nbr. 1, February 2004
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Intelligence
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It's not what you do, it's how you do it.
The growing controversy in both Britain and the United States over Iraq's Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) has highlighted the difficulties of both gathering and assessing intelligence. The picture remains obscure but it appears that the intelligence on Iraqi WMD was at best extremely limited.
During the Cold War the two superpowers relied extensively upon satellites for intelligence gathering and this provided many coups, indeed by the time of the Cuba missile crisis American satellite intelligence had discovered the Soviet Union was heavily outnumbered in intercontinental ballistic missiles. But in the post-Cold War world, over-reliance upon satellites can be counter-productive and it is clear that greater emphasis needs to be given to alternate sources of data gathering. Satellites will certainly remain a valuable part of the intelligence gathering process by 'cueing' inte...See the full content of this document
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