Posted on 04/02/2015 6:39:59 AM PDT by fredericbastiat1
I put a briefing together and spoke at the Pentagon around Christmastime in 2005. The briefing culminated in a slide that raised two central questions:
Can overdependence on “moderates” to explain non-Western motivations and beliefs lead us to (overly) depend on them for the decisions we make?
Is there a point where the outsourcing of an understanding of events leads to the outsourcing of the decisionmaking associated with those events?
Underlying both questions was my concern that decisions central to the warfighting effort are based solely on the inputs of experts on subjects that the decisionmakers themselves do not understand. When such a practice becomes chronic, actual decisionmaking shifts from those responsible for making decisions to the experts they rely on for information. It is a subversion of both the decisionmaking and the warfighting processes.
At the Pentagon, after I had expressed my opinion on these issues directly, I was asked to join the Intelligence Directorate as a full-time consultant. Since then, while I repackaged my presentations and restated them in many ways with greater demonstrated foreseeability, the central issue has remained the same: Senior leaders remain profoundly unaware of the Islamic doctrines that frame the War on Terror. Tragically, not knowing these doctrines kills Americans and undermines our security.
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I’d love to read it.
Please post it.
(Aint clickin’ on the Blaze.)
Not going to the Blaze, but evidently Benjamin Weingarten is the manager of Blaze books.
What’s with the “Blaze-phobia” here at FR?
Beats me!
Oh, they know the Moslems and their doctrine are a threat. If they admit that, then they have to deal with it or be liable. To deal with it means to use taxpayer provided money for that instead of using taxpayer provided money to buy votes for Democrats.
The Democrats are not stupid or unaware of foreign policy. They’re just betting that they can loot the public treasury before they finally get caught with a nuke going off in San Francisco.
So, they play stupid and steal from us while we spend our time complaining about them or hoping to educate them when we should be throwing them in jail.
We spend billions of dollars a year for intelligence, but Hillary has to have her own secret intelligence operation? Think about it. Why would she have to have that?
Blackmail.
Am I missing something? don’t see any links to “5 banned pages”.
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