It can be done better next time, but there is no country in the world, nor has there ever been a time when we had such technological advantage to allow us to support a single pilot down in an adverse circumstance and bring him back. We in the intelligence community have a lot that must be done to support this kind of dominant battlefield awareness. Third, we have to assure that there is interoperability of information systems, so that there is rapid communication between commanders, analysts and civilian National Command Authority. One example of a step that we are going to take to try and improve this is the establishment of the new agency to assure that all our imagery efforts are brought together in one coherent way to serve the needs of the military commander. In sum, in the coming months and years we are going to be taking a wide range of measures to improve our intelligence support to the military.
Good intelligence can help put our military forces at their full potential.
It's particularly important at a time when we have a smaller military that is being asked to take on a wide number of different challenges in remote and unfamiliar areas of the world. In my judgment, the military and the intelligence community have an opportunity today to continue working as a team to achieve a credible goal. Whether turning back two divisions of Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard on the border of Kuwait, as we did last fall, or finding that one downed pilot, as we did in Bosnia last week, we could work together to provide better effectiveness, less loss of life and greater achievement of our national goals if we work together. The intelligence community has tremendous technical and human capabilities. I am committed to putting these capabilities and these powers directly in the hands of you here today, now and in the future.