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Originally Posted by Catfish
If an aircraft is hit by a missile, this may well lead to technical failure of some sort..
The whole region is going crazy now. While i cannot say that the death of Suleimani has to be mourned after what he did, time and place was ill chosen.
It seems the US neglects active spying by humans, depending on general intelligence data obtained entirely digitally and by remote camera observations. Bad and insecure trend.
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I wouldnt say we neglect HUMINT. Rather we had to develop and depend heavily on ELINT to see what was going on in the old Soviet Union. Thats the way it has always been with us and we've developed some pretty kewl toys since then too. Then there was the 2015 hack of the OMB security clearance data. I have no doubt that hurt our HUMINT network real bad by exposing the many people we may have used to furnish intel.