My experience has been that military assessments on 'how goes the war' are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
It is not scientifically possible to accurately predict the outcome of an action. To suggest otherwise runs contrary to historical experience and the nature of war.
I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.
I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.
So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.
My personal sources in the intelligence community and the military are very good. They're excellent. I have very high-up, in-depth sources.
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.
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