Espionage and Intelligence | The U.S. Intelligence Community Must Develop More Human Intelligence to Combat Terrorism

About the author: Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, who spent twenty years in the British Special Air Service and Irish Guards, teaches courses on travel safety for students and businesspeople traveling abroad.

Colin Powell once responded to a question about whether the United States would be deploying ground troops to the Balkans by saying, ‘We do deserts, not mountains.’While it may be a little unfair to quote the General now, out of context and a world away from those sybaritic days before [the terrorist attacks of] 11 September [2001], the statement nevertheless...

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