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http://breakingdefense.com/2014/09/joint-intel-chief-says-us-needs-to-better-understand-china-strategy/Joint Intel Chief Says US Must Better Understand China Strategy
By Colin Clark on September 19, 2014 at 5:46 PM
WASHINGTON: Weve got bus-sized satellites that can probably see any blemishes on Chairman Maos badly rebuilt face from space (didnt know about that, did you?). Weve got U-2s with their superb sensors watching the Chinese coast (for now). Weve got P-8s scanning the seas for Chinese submarines and testing their radar. Our subs hopefully cruise within their harbors and along their coasts. Our diplomats and spies collect rumint, humint and huge quantities of documents about China. But that doesnt mean we really understand what China is doing, plans to do, or why its doing what its doing.
The man responsible for indicators and strategic warnings at the Pentagon, the so-called J-2, told an audience of intelligence experts and industry types that the US suffers from a data glut but an information deficit about China. We need to understand their strategy better, Rear Adm. Paul Becker said this afternoon at the annual Intelligence and National Security Summit here. Our intelligence analysts need to come to closer grips with Chinas grand strategy (if it has one), interim objectives and their main campaigns so they can better serve commanders and other senior leaders, he said.
You could almost hear his thoughts about the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the P-8 near-collision, oil rigs, and the Senkaku Islands as the admiral spoke.
And in a very interesting sidebar, Becker made clear that he worries the US lacks the sort of towering intelligence analysts we once possessed: Where are those people for China? We need them?
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Joint Intel Chief Says US Must ‘Better’ Understand China Strategy (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2014
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ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)1. We've labored under a humint deficit for at least 25 years. n/t
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)2. NOPE - hindered by Corp interest
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)3. YEP-- regardless of the reason or reasons why, we have. n/t