<pdf> 28 p. Center for a New American Security, Jan. 2010, 1,3M

http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/AfghanIntelFlynn.pdf

The tendency to overemphasize detailed information about the enemy at the expense of the political, economic, and cultural environment that supports it becomes even more pronounced at the brigade and Regional Command levels.

The most salient problems are attitudinal, cultural, and human. The intelligence community's standard mode of operation is surprisingly passive about aggregating information that is not enemy-related and relaying it to decision-makers or fellow analysts further up the chain. It is a culture that is strangely oblivious of how little its analytical products, as they now exist, actually influence commanders. The same thing could have been written, and was in fact written, during the Vietnam War.