Mission over Mechanism: Reorganizing the Intelligence Community to Meet the Challenge of Asymmetric Warfare

In the age of asymmetric warfare, intelligence is tantamount to national defense. Our terrorist adversaries are too dispersed to destroy and too fanatical to deter. Our best hope of security is accurate, timely, accessible information and actionable analysis. We need to organize the Intelligence Community (IC) by mission - not collection mechanism - to take full advantage of our technical proficiency and analytic expertise.

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