James talks about the differences between the old school intelligence officers versus today’s more risk adverse approach. Technology is changing how intelligence collection is carried out, effecting everything from the case officers on the ground to the bureaucrats who issue their orders. The older generation was better at taking risks but today’s generation is better as mitigating risks.
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Other effective intel "agencies" (ISI for example) certainly are adept at all methods for "collecting, cultivating, gathering, etc"- we need to have people how are willing to be comprehensive agents not just specialists-who are willing to be uncomfortable-see it as a badge of honor rather than a risk to avoid. Please have another discussion on this sometime soon now that leadership in our departments and agencies handling intel collection has changed. Thank you.
i disagree with the assessment of social perspective on todays gen, i think this gen is somewhat arrogant and think themselves better than they are ¯_(ツ)_/¯ i dont know i think this is our bad gen to skip to another great gen