William Hague, the British foreign secretary, again dismissed concerns on Tuesday in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in California, saying Britain should have nothing but pride in its "indispensable" intelligence-sharing relationship with the US.
Despite the high loss rate, the military believes the Desert Hawk still provides "indispensable and flexible" intelligence to UK ground forces – and value for money.
According to one Internet provider, it would result in the home secretary issuing 10,000 warrants a year by 2005, five times the current level of tapping authorisations.A government consultation document, "Interception of Communications", published in June, says that interception is indispensable in gathering intelligence against serious criminals.
"But intelligence is also indispensable.
The nation's 27 million people and fragile economy have been held hostage to the whims of Mr. Fujimori and his shadowy intelligence chief and indispensable aide, Vladimiro Montesinos.
Answering those questions is all about human intelligence — as utterly indispensable now as it has ever been.
Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the new deputy director of national intelligence, made himself the indispensable man as chief of the National Security Agency.
He has grown ever more indispensable as American credibility on atomic intelligence has nose-dived and European diplomacy with Tehran has stalled.
The UK Chartered Management Institute CMII) predicts that by the year 2018, women will be moving rapidly up the chain of command because their emotional intelligence skills will be indispensable and valued.
Over the centuries, human qualities once deemed indispensable to war fighting – muscular power, manliness, intelligence, judgment – have one by one become obsolete or been ceded to machines.
Even if deployments of the security forces, intelligence efforts and vigilance are indispensable and could be better organised – as a parliamentary inquiry recently showed – they would still not be enough.
