He spend the rest of his professional life as a high school English teacher. Let me know if he interests you as a speaker. What Is To Be Done Because reliable military intelligence is critical in all stages of preparation, it holds high priority with our nation's leaders. They have underwritten vast international systems of data collection and analyses. Unfortunately, size is not a guarantor of reliability.
Reliability requires that the intelligence be timely and correctly processed from accurate data.
If any of these three elements are compromised, reliability suffers. This paper will point to several examples in recent national history when the lack of accurate, timely, or misinterpreted intelligence has led directly to national failures. Our seemingly endemic failure to acquire and process relevant information into effective intelligence is one of the most damning of our various recurring faults. It has sometimes caused horrific damage. Ages ago, Sun Tzu insisted that knowing the enemy was essential.