Over the last week, Hans Blix, a chief weapons inspector, has diplomatically but forcefully said that he cannot make his inspections more precise without specific intelligence information from Washington.
Over the winter, as the coalition developed better intelligence and more precise methods of dealing with the people and cells revealed by each anti-coalition operation, the effectiveness of loyalists to the former regime began to decline.
A new series of raids in northern Iraq against supporters of Saddam Hussein's government is the first wide-scale use of an American strategy of carrying out smaller, more precise attacks, based on better intelligence, commanders say.
This is unfortunate as the increasing pace, complexity, and globalization of work demand a more precise and uncontaminated measurement of intelligence that remains effective across multiple contexts.
Ground raids, based on intelligence, can be more precise, but they also come with a much greater risk of U.S. casualties.
This otherwise valuable AP story, the only major article to mark Midway's 70th anniversary, is misleading in making intelligence sound far more precise than it was, extensively a retired officer who'd been a young ensign at the time.
"Precision Editor" for more precise editing along the timeline.
American officers said the intensified airstrikes were possible because of better intelligence, which enables pilots to be more precise in their attacks.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that they would continue to "use overt as well as covert activities to improve target information, to gather intelligence that will enable us to be more precise in what we do".
If the rebels managed to target and hit a moving motorcade, it would signal an unusual tactical feat or perhaps new weapons more precise than the usual rockets and mortars, as well as good intelligence.
