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Note on Linear Thinking and Visibility

Not fully formulated, but presented here for your consideration:

I felt from content and approaches in the readings on bot military and intelligence that the relationship between the two seems to be viewed as more or less linear: RMA has enabled an RIA. Wouldn't it be wise to avoid such linear projection, since intelligence structures and approaches can and have possibly been reformed more frequently than military structures and approaches, just in less visible ways, because of the inherent difference in nature of the military and of intelligence - intelligence, I would say, is a comparatively less...tangible. Often less visible...often intentionally. Military entities are also easily captured visually than those of intelligence - visibility can be seen as key to power, its purpose, its execution, what it achieves, and how it changes and builds on itself.

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