Have you ever played that game called Stratego? It's a lot more fun than checkers, and not as mind taxing as chess, and it's simpler than RISK, but the object of the game is to capture your enemy's flag and you win. In the real world if you can capture your enemy's computer, and decipher the cryptonics then you can win. The other day I was talking to a retired military intelligence officer, who stayed in the military after the Vietnam War and retired within a ten years, but has followed things closely ever sense.
We got on the topic of the treasure trove of intelligence captured from Osama bin Laden's million dollar compound in Pakistan. Yes, going in and getting Osama bin Laden personally using special forces paid off didn't it? Now then, it is quite possible we could have blasted him very easily with hellfire missiles from a drone, one after another until the compound was completely pulverized. Perhaps we could've sent in a Stealth fighter aircraft and put a 500 pound J-Dam on top of the compound.
However, collecting all that military intelligence was a great find. And it was noted that the amount of data collected was that of a small community-college library, wow, that's a lot of information to go through. And the media explained that we had our intelligence people going through it, and I was talking to my acquaintance about this at Starbucks, and he said yes, but how much of it is pornography, as it was also reported that Osama bin Laden had a rather sizable stash of pornographic material.
Many might be surprised at this, but it is quite common in that region of the world, even for a man who claims he is a devout religious fellow. My acquaintance said that they were sure to get more volunteers to go through all the intelligence after making the statement that much of it was pornography. Indeed, I laughed, but it would be my guess that the best tactic moving forward would be to take all the kids at the Quantico, Virginia in FBI Academy, at US Marine Corps base, and at the CIA up the road, along with all the kids in Annapolis studying naval intelligence and divide them up into teams, to go through it all.
The amount of information collected, and deciphered, would tell us everything we need to know about the method of operations within the Al Qaeda organization, and perhaps the names of individuals in the hierarchy of the Taliban and other groups. In fact, the computer forensics from this military intelligence find with all those hard drives, and CD ROMs of data has put America back in the winner's circle in the war on terror. Please consider all this and think on it.
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