"It's a magnificent book," Mr. Woodward said of the new volume, partly because of the analogies drawn to the war in Iraq, he said, "the lessons of bad intelligence, no plan, the disconnect between the war as seen by the fighting man and headquarters".
Lesson of class, intelligence and the precision of their midfielders.
Crumpton's interview comes as his book, "The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service," hits the bookshelves.
But in the weeks since, the Prague meeting has emerged as an object lesson in the limits of intelligence reports rather than the cornerstone of the case against Iraq.
The intelligence lessons of World War I, along with advances in technology especially electronics and aircraft technology resulted in a proliferation of new intelligence agencies in the 1920s and '30s, particularly in totalitarian states (Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union) but also in some democratic European countries.
One official, Steven W. Casteel, the drug agency's chief of intelligence, said the lessons learned from the cooperative operation were more important than sheer numbers.
It was such a lesson for me about the different kinds of intelligence.
Raddatz says, "I take the lesson of a former intelligence officer who said, when I was a young man my dad took me deer hunting.
The Theory of Successful Intelligence and its three forms of intelligence (Practical, Analytical, and Creative), are supported by lessons learned from the Renaissance, including the Medici Effect and da Vinci's Seven Principles.
The great lesson for me, with the benefit of hindsight, is not about the use of intelligence, but about the value of doubt.
