I have watched the debates on national missile defense for many, many years, and I think a national missile defense is an essential part of our overall strategic force posture, which consists of offensive weapons, command-and-control systems, intelligence systems, and a national missile defense.
These include army engineers and logisticians, field hospitals and nurses, heavy-lift aircraft and transport helicopters, as well as proper command-and-control and intelligence-gathering: in other words, the wherewithal of modern Western expeditionary forces.
"That's not a command-and-control system," one American intelligence expert subsequently told me.
"The Pakistanis gave us a virtual look at the number of warheads, some of their locations, and their command-and-control system," the former senior intelligence official told me.
It added that there were command-and-control arrangements in place to use those chemical and biological weapons, and that intelligence showed Mr. Hussein might have delegated authority over them to his son Qusay.
This may be surprising, given the Bush administration's command-and-control management style, but it's a smart response to the limitations of traditional intelligence analysis — limitations that in the past few years have been painfully exposed.
The intelligence of drones lies in the DOS (Drone Operating System); in other words, the autopilot: the command-and-control central nervous system.
It was a command-and-control center.
"This command-and-control business is complicated.
A series of command-and-control regulations.
