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Israel hears calls to upgrade military intelligence TEL AVIV — Israel's military has been urged to modernize its intelligence corps. Leading analysts and parliamentarians are calling on military intelligence to upgrade its training to prepare soldiers to properly collect and analyze data. The goal must update both skills as well as conception of intelligence in the 21st Century. [Res.] Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, a former head of the Defense Ministry's Research Directorate, said that for years knowledge of Arabic was sufficient for the Israeli military intelligence officer. Ben-Yisrael, a former senior air force intelligence officer, said Arabic was no longer sufficient for weapons of mass destruction, which he termed Israel's leading threat. "Knowing Arabic is not enough," Ben-Yisrael said. "It's not enough to have a specialty. It's a way of thinking." Ben-Yisrael said MI is required to train its cadets on how to conduct searches on the Internet or in military archives. Soldiers must be trained to break down the barrier between collection and analysis, he said. "It's a matter of conception. There is not a lot of difference between collection and analysis. The idea is that collection collects and the analysis analyzes is far from the reality. The collector is directed by the analysis," he said. Israel is one of the few countries whose military intelligence managed different bodies for analysis and collection, Ben-Yisrael said. MI in both Britain and the United States have analysts and collection staff work together. Military sources said Israel's MI underwent a major revision in 2002 in both collection and analysis. They said the unit's computer system was upgraded and management was overhauled in an attempt to improve collection and flow of intelligence. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
