9/11 Attack Case Study
Absolutely, collecting, analyzing, and disseminating accurate information is crucial in preventing scrutiny to the Unites States national security. Due to the attack on 9/11 all intelligence communities were scrutinized by the people and the government. 1 This event in American history marked crucial Intelligence failure. Information not collected, reported, disseminated, and integrated correctly can lead to in effective policy making or future attacks. 2
Additionally, each intelligence organization must have a standard operating procedure in place to not miss warnings that may affect national security. The intelligence community must “consider five phases: data acquisition; correlation, and intelligence professionals’ decision to warn; communication
to decision makers; discussion, assessment, and decision to respond, by these authorities”. 3 Dating back to the early 1930’s the United States have been involved in major combat conflict, which began with a surprise attack.
Finally, it has taken many years to put a system in place to provide over watch for the intelligence community. Since the post war reform, the United States Intelligence community has bettered the problems. The many reason the impediments to strategic intelligence analysis has persisted for so long is that “victims sometimes recognize escalating indicators of attack yet still wait too long before mobilizing because they expect the enemy to play out more diplomatic moves before striking”. 4 Waiting on diplomatic pressures to resolve a potential attack prior to it accruing will continue to be a failure, as well as missing the warning indicators. What are your thoughts?
Additionally, each intelligence organization must have a standard operating procedure in place to not miss warnings that may affect national security. The intelligence community must “consider five phases: data acquisition; correlation, and intelligence professionals’ decision to warn; communication
to decision makers; discussion, assessment, and decision to respond, by these authorities”. 3 Dating back to the early 1930’s the United States have been involved in major combat conflict, which began with a surprise attack.
Finally, it has taken many years to put a system in place to provide over watch for the intelligence community. Since the post war reform, the United States Intelligence community has bettered the problems. The many reason the impediments to strategic intelligence analysis has persisted for so long is that “victims sometimes recognize escalating indicators of attack yet still wait too long before mobilizing because they expect the enemy to play out more diplomatic moves before striking”. 4 Waiting on diplomatic pressures to resolve a potential attack prior to it accruing will continue to be a failure, as well as missing the warning indicators. What are your thoughts?