Meanwhile, the Lebanese government has told the United Nations that showing any of the tape would be "unacceptable" and tantamount to providing an enemy with intelligence.
It is technically impossible to effectively attack an enemy without first obtaining actionable intelligence about the enemy.
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It would seem that the Obama administration will do whatever it takes to avoid gathering intelligence from enemy combatants these days.
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But while individual drone strikes are a justified and often desirable tactic, they cannot fully substitute for a coherent military detention policy that provides for detaining and gathering intelligence from enemy combatants during hostilities and then trying them in a venue suitable to the wartime circumstances of their capture.
Reconnaissance is the military term for the passive collection of intelligence about an enemy prior to attacking that enemy.
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So, if you have a spymaster who unwittingly relies on double agents feeding the CIA enemy disinformation rather than accurate intelligence, conclusions drawn from such data will be erroneous, possibly dangerously so.
Barbero says technology is only part of the answer: troops have to be trained to get the full value of counter-IED technology, and detailed intelligence is required to attack enemy networks and finances.
His daughter is an intelligence analyst whose duties will include identifying enemy activity and potential threats.
If we are to win this war against an enemy that occupies no particular territory, we need intelligence.
Understand that we want soldiers on the front lines of battle to have the most up-to-date intelligence that's possible about the enemy that they face, the tactics that they use.
However, as Iraq has shown, our casualties are reduced exponentially as the situation improves and the local population willingly provides critical intelligence and even takes the fight to the enemy themselves.
In all, the former intelligence analysts faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy.
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It was at the forefront of the action with the Normandy landings in June 1944, again going behind enemy lines in jeeps assisting the French Resistance and providing crucial intelligence for allied forces.
The senator noted that this practice flies in the face of "thousands of years" of sound military and intelligence practice, which makes accurate characterization of the enemy a prerequisite for developing and executing strategies for his defeat.
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The purpose of the provision is both to unify POWs under a common set of guidelines but also to articulate to the enemy that our men and women in uniform will not willingly provide intelligence information.
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Intelligence services both in Britain and abroad are loth to give the enemy a clear indication of how much they know, and, especially, of how they know it.
We're investing in the 21st century military and intelligence capabilities that will allow us to stay one step ahead of a nimble enemy.
They collect vital intelligence for warfighters at every level in the chain of command, sometimes loitering silently above enemy formations far longer than any manned aircraft could.
Our armed forces - like their counterparts in the intelligence community, Department of Homeland Security and law enforcement - have a professional duty to know the enemy and develop appropriate responses to the threat doctrine.
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