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Ep 004 “Fixing Fight Club: Intelligence Failure is a Feature and Not a Bug”

by | Dec 9, 2024

Ep 004 “Fixing Fight Club: Intelligence Failure is a Feature and Not a Bug”

by | Dec 9, 2024

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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.

It’s time to restructure and realign the IC if America is to succeed as a free and peaceful member of nations. It will consume roughly 100 billion a year to produce shoddy analysis, inform bad policy and a Keystone Kops foreign covert/clandestine operations history that is a national shame.

Time to level the entire national IC in a controlled demolition and don’t replace cancer if found, kill it.

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:

Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis 3 Ed

Richard J. Heuer Jr The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis

David Talbot The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government

Roger Z. George (Ed, et al) Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners’ Perspectives

Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

John Prado The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA’s Heart of Darkness

John Prado Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA

Mortimer Adler How to Read a Book

My Substack.

Contact me at cgpodcast@pm.me

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert

Bill Buppert is the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and a contributor over time to various liberty endeavors. He served in the military for nearly a quarter century and contractor tours after retirement on occasion and was a combat tourist in a number of neo-imperialist shit-pits around the world.

He can be found on twitter at @wbuppert and reached via email at cgpodcast@pm.me.

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