However, it appears as if we in the west, NATO, have moved away from human intelligence and more and more towards technologies.As we now have teen-gamers with low social/human skills, we now also have intelligence agencies comprised of gamer-skilled techies able to run the latest computer intelligence hardware and produce reems of unintelligble data on enemies; yet they are still unable to answer simple human questions of the people they are gathering said intellience on.

Perhaps what we need is more people on the ground actually interacting with people, and truly and accurately sussing-out who are friends and foes.

Perhaps what we need are agencies staffed with more than former military, myopic,white caucasians.It is important that NATO and the West realise that the threats are not only from former Warsaw Pact Communists but also radicals from around the worldI. It is essential that all peoples of all hues and creeds work in our intelligence agencies because contrary to movies and popular thinking caucasians do stand out like sore thumbs in most of the world -the myth of a white teflon camouflaged James Bond image just doesn’t cut it anymore!

Perhaps, at the end of the day and the end of my diatribe what we truly need are agencies and agents not obcessed with their jobs and their importance in their jobs but more so people who are doing their jobs of connecting to people and persuading all to work for the greater good…not personal/bureau/agency agendas.