Posted on 05/10/2022 12:16:24 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials were questioned Tuesday about why they misjudged the durability of governments in both Afghanistan and Ukraine, and whether they need to reform how intelligence agencies assess a foreign military’s will to fight.
U.S. intelligence believed the U.S.-backed Kabul government would hold out for months against the Taliban and thought Russian forces would overrun Ukraine in a few weeks. Both assessments were wrong. The U.S. and Western allies are now rushing to aid Ukraine’s resistance against Russia in what has turned into a grinding, violent stalemate.
“What we missed was the will to fight of the Ukrainians...and we also missed that in Afghanistan,” said Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He added, “I realize will to fight is a lot harder to assess than number of tanks or volume of ammunition or something. But I hope the intelligence community is doing some soul-searching about how to better get a handle on that question.”
Avril Haines, the U.S. director of national intelligence, said that “will to fight” and “capacity to fight” in tandem were difficult to predict. The National Intelligence Council, a group of advisers that reviews the agencies as a whole, is studying the issue, she said.
“The two of them are issues that are, as you indicated, quite challenging to provide effective analysis on,” Haines told King. “And we’re looking at different methodologies for doing so.”
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We gotta stop calling them intel. They should be called the ‘politburo’.
That photo of Marines must be the Marine Band, the President’s Own.
If not they are there sloppiest Marines ever! (The rank insignia does NOT have the crossed rifles, so likely the band) Disgusting display in uniform.
Badly in need of a good Gunnery Sergeant, or three.
It seems that the CIA has been making many mistakes and misjudgements since 2015. Perhaps they are in need of an overhaul. What about it you folks coming aboard Congress in January 2023???
Too busy spying and framing Trump and Republicans.
Don’t use the word “intelligence” and Democrats in the same sentence. “Never the twain shall meet”.
MM, from an old family of Intel Spooks, including self.
“ Close them all. Fire everyone.”
Just polygraph everyone. Offer them the option of resigning, go to prison if they lie or if they tell the truth, offer them a job. Then we find out how really corrupt they are. Do the same thing to every agency.
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