‘Afghanistan Papers’ Thursday, January 07, 2010

The Flynn Paper on Intel in Afghanistan

Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan ...... "Our senior leaders - the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, Congress, the President of the United States - are not getting the right information to make decisions with ... The media is driving the issues. We need to build a process from the sensor all the way to the political decision makers."

This report is the blueprint for that process. It describes the problem, details the changes, and illuminates examples of units that are "getting it right." It is aimed at commanders as well as intelligence professionals in Afghanistan, the United States and Europe...
https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/AfghanistanMGFlynn_Jan2010.pdf