1989 General Al Gray on Global Intelligence Challenges
Categories: About the Idea,Historic Contributions,Insurgency & Revolution,Intelligence (Government/Secret)
General Al Gray, USMC
General Gray was known as a warrior, but he was also an intelligence professional and uniquely among all the flag officers I have ever known, an inspiring educator. He created not just the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, but the Marine Corps University, new forms of informal research to empower younger officers and explore the “edges” beyond the conventional comfort zone. He was, in brief, a warrior-scholar who epitomizes all lthat should be good in our leaders.
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[...] Al Gray, USMC (Ret), then Commandant of the Marine Corps, who in 1989 was calling for both “peaceful preventive measures” and what is today known as Irregular Warfare (nothing new, each generation rediscovers [...]
[...] 21 years after General Al Gray called for redirection toward the Third World in his article “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s,” a failure of leadership in Congress, the White House, and of course within the US IC. It [...]
[...] Soviet Union toward zones of instability. This was AFTER General Al Gray’s article, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s” was published in 1989 in the American Intelligence Journal (Winter 1989-1990) and AFTER [...]
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[...] and DoD have been told for 21 years, beginning with General Al Gray’s 1989 article, “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s,” and ending most recently with General Mike Flynn’s Fixing Intel–A Blueprint for [...]
[...] it’s not new, it’s just a return to what many of us have long recognized and called constabulary, expedtionary, and asymmetric warfare–uncomfortable little wars that yeild little profit for contractors [...]
[...] Corps Al Gray and the USMC Intelligence Center figure it out. General Gray publishes “Global Intelligence Challenges in the 1990’s,” American Intelligence Journal (Winter [...]