My Storming America Series covers the gamut of what the spontaneous attack in the US will look like when terror cells launch a simultaneous attack on the US homeland.
I cover it in Episodes 37, 41-43 and 49-50 of my Chasing Ghosts podcast.
This is a continuation of my “Storming America Series” where I will tease out and describe why the inevitable internal attack on America by external forces will be made real.
In this episode, I will examine what intelligence looks like from a professional perspective and why America and the West consistently engage in existential chaos avalanches that make the world a worse place.
The bureaucratic impulse in the West has been a significant factor in making the intelligence community (IC), like the military community, a paper tiger that is a far greater danger to the inhabitants of the west than an ally. Until the IC is restructured and made more effective, it will consume roughly 100 billion a year to produce shoddy analysis, inform bad policy and a Keystone Kops foreign covert operations history that is a national shame.
Like 9/11 and its existential failures, the next attack on America will have them simply asking for more money and more power.
If you leveled the FBI, NSA and CIA tomorrow morning, made each of their budgets one dollar and fired all their employees, you would still be safe as a country.
References:
Richard J. Hueur The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
David Talbot The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book
Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
John Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness
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Douglas Porch Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War
Ann Scott Tyson American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Grant
H. John Poole The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare
Mark Bowden Blackhawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Bob Scales Scales on War: The Future of America’s Military at Risk
Aaron B. O’Connell Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Hollywood
Hy S. Rothstein Afghanistan and the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare
Robert Asprey War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla In History
Special Forces Detachment Mission Planning Guide HQDA January 2020
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