In Washington, where fresh memories of Pearl Harbor were still rattling through the power corridors -- much like today, 18 months after Al Qaeda's attacks on New York and the Pentagon -- the lack of good intelligence on Soviet forces was unnerving.
American and British special forces can be pivotal, providing the United States obtains good intelligence on the whereabouts of Mr. bin Laden and the Taliban leadership, which is a big if.
Senior police officers said improved relations had reaped an abundance of good intelligence for operations.
"Over several decades in uniform, he learned firsthand the necessity of good intelligence for our men and women in uniform".
Drone strikes have been important to that progress, but their success, and the fact that civilian casualties have not been even more extensive, is entirely due to good intelligence, most of it provided by informants.
According to a new study published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a policy research institute with conservative leanings, those include a willingness to bear the political costs of military offensives, good intelligence and control of the territory from which militants operate.
In the American Revolution George Washington relied heavily on information that was provided by an intelligence net based in New York City, and in World War II the results of a lack of good intelligence were realized in the destruction of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
There are two major areas of the report that will be heavily debated: Was there any good intelligence that came of the torture?
Sun Tzu stressed the importance of good intelligence organization, and he also wrote of counterintelligence and psychological warfare.
But he added that the Bush Administration's options for dealing with that threat are diminished, because of a lack of good intelligence and also because "we've cried wolf" before.
