Intelligence Isn’t Just for Commanders, Anymore

Zachery Tyson Brown
10 min readMar 27, 2022

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Intelligence is for commanders, or at least so I’ve been told. Regardless of the term you prefer — commander, principal, or policymaker — the idea expressed by the phrase, that intelligence exists to help some “decision-maker” make better decisions, is conventional wisdom in the intelligence community. But it has probably outlived its usefulness.

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