Partial / not verified information is fed up the chain of command (doesn't have to be intelligence, but assume in this case it is to keep things consistent and easy to understand).
Oftentimes people use stovepiping to protect their career. You don't know what work I'm doing, so you can't take my position away type of scenario.
Partial / not verified information is fed up the chain of command (doesn't have to be intelligence, but assume in this case it is to keep things consistent and easy to understand).
Oftentimes people use stovepiping to protect their career. You don't know what work I'm doing, so you can't take my position away type of scenario.
The end result however it's done / for whatever underlying purposes, is that the decision makers don't have a full picture on which to draw conclusions.
Imagine Major D. reported Russia has 500 tanks of which 400 were shown to be burned in videos and photographs. Sounds good until you learn 300 were repairable / repaired in subsequent weeks. Meaning in reality Russia only suffered 100 true losses to its tanks.
So Major D., the image intelligence guy didn't work with Sargent C., the human intelligence girl who would have sent her spies to verify those losses.
I'm not picking on Russia. You can equally apply this to weapon systems that went missing* in Ukraine, troop losses, etc.
* missing can be destroyed, or sold on the black market. There are lots of reports of NATO-shipped-to-Ukraine materiel now in the possession of European underworld gangs.
Also reports of a HIMARS launcher and 3 missiles which were sold to Russia by Ukrainian operators around August 2022 for ~$1.2 million. (Yes, DoD when they don't look, won't find anything...)
Partial / not verified information is fed up the chain of command (doesn't have to be intelligence, but assume in this case it is to keep things consistent and easy to understand).
Oftentimes people use stovepiping to protect their career. You don't know what work I'm doing, so you can't take my position away type of scenario.
The end result however it's done / for whatever underlying purposes, is that the decision makers don't have a full picture on which to draw conclusions.
Imagine Major D. reported Russia has 500 tanks of which 400 were shown to be burned in videos and photographs. Sounds good until you learn 300 were repairable / repaired in subsequent weeks. Meaning in reality Russia only suffered 100 true losses to its tanks.
So Major D., the image intelligence guy didn't work with Sargent C., the human intelligence girl who would have sent her spies to verify those losses.
I'm not picking on Russia. You can equally apply this to weapon systems that went missing* in Ukraine, troop losses, etc.
* missing can be destroyed, or sold on the black market. There are lots of reports of NATO-shipped-to-Ukraine materiel now in the possession of European underworld gangs.
Also reports of a HIMARS launcher and 3 missiles which were sold to Russia by Ukrainian operators around August 2022 for ~$1.2 million. (Yes, DoD when they don't look, won't find anything...)
ok no problem buddy , sorry if i stepped on your toes there.
You sound like someone in the loop who feels unduly burned, and for that. I apologize.
But you have to admit that stovepiping protects the big potatoes at the cost of the small fry.