vara bungas: Interesantas pārdomas par populāra seriāla tēmu US ex-izlūka izpildījumā. Nespēju tās pa īstam novērtēt, jo nenoskatījos līdz galam nevienu Troņu spēļu sēriju. Tomēr šis te velk uz Dienas graudu:
“[..] But the spy’s reports and the schemer’s plots are not, by themselves, intelligence.No, the purpose of intelligence is to inform better decisions. The role of the intelligence officer is to facilitate the decision-maker’s understanding, to cohere the incoherent.[..] it doesn’t matter how many reports we write in the ivory tower if we don’t climb down once in a while to meet the users of intelligence where they are, in the trenches of competition and conflict. Intelligence is instrumental; it has no autarkic significance at all. Unlike academe, we in the IC [ intelligence comunity ] do not pursue knowledge for its own sake, but to provide an advantage to our decision-makers. [..]”
UPD1 Dažreiz aizej ar mapīti pie klienta, a viņš tev: “[..] “Nav īpaši aizraujošs šis ziņojums, jo ir daudzas vispārzināmas lietas par Krievijas iekšpolitiku, ārpolitiku, ekonomiku, mediju monitorings. [..] ” 🙂
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