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The Importance of Studies in Intelligence and Need for Partnership With Intelligence Schools
The House Intelligence Committee recently held a hearing on why the Intelligence Community was not able to provide more accurate and timely information on the political situation in Egypt. The Intelligence Community provided over 400 reports which documented instability within this region yet at least to the American public, it appears that the Intelligence Community was caught off guard when President Mubarak actually stepped down from power. Committee members did correctly note that intelligence professionals cannot predict the future, but the magnitude of these events suggests that intelligence analysts must utilize all tools and information at their disposal to truly focus on threat assessments.
For this reason, one could suggest that new analysts and even seasoned veterans should continue their education and studies in intelligence through in house intelligence schools or other institutions which provide intelligence training. This essay provides background on the recent intelligence shortcomings and then provides rationale for the importance of continued studies in intelligence and the development of strong intelligence schools.
During this recent hearing, Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta mentioned that many triggers can lead to regional instability and eventual upheaval, including high unemployment among jobless yet well-educated youth, regressive regimes, and economic instability among other triggers. James Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence, noted that “specific triggers for how and when instability would lead to the collapse of various regimes cannot always be known or predicted. What intelligence can do in most cases is reduce the uncertainty for decision makers, but not necessarily eliminate it.”
Youth Leadership Training – 7 Ways to Seek Support For Youth Leadership Training Programs
At some point, you will need additional resources (money, people, or things) to deliver quality leadership training. Where do you begin? How do you present your case? This article suggests seven options to consider. When structured the right way, they will help you to gain the support you need to deliver top notch youth leadership programs.
7 Ways to Seek Support
1. A proposal
Of Kings And Youth Leadership
(Isaiah 11:6 KJV) The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
If ever there was a time for youth leadership development for our future, then that time is now. Homeschooling our children to give them a better education is the goal of every homeschooling parent and an additional goal should also underly your convictions – that your child be trained to lead others to follow in the right way.
For those who may feel that my child is too young to learn how to lead, let me refer you to more words of wisdom on training up a child. ‘(2 Chronicles 24:1 KJV) Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem.’ Since our public schools are training up our children to not follow or lead in an ethical or moral manner then homeschooling parents have no choice but to take matters into their own hands. ‘Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ Others have challenged that we can’t all teach our children to be leaders – and those wise enough beg to differ as we realize that a nation of leaders will have the same goals to follow those who will lead toward a more complete and moral life today and tomorrow.
