An Intelligence Civil War “HUMINT’” vs “TECHINT”
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<strong>An</strong> <strong>Intelligence</strong> <strong>Civil</strong> <strong>War</strong>:<br />
<strong>“HUMINT’”</strong> <strong>vs</strong>. <strong>“TECHINT”</strong><br />
Matthew Crosston and Frank Valli<br />
Since 9/11, intelligence has evolved within a changing atmosphere<br />
of modern tactics and techniques for information collection.<br />
This atmosphere, coupled with massive leaps in technological<br />
advancement such as social media, mobile communications,<br />
processing analytics, large-form solid-state data storage, novel<br />
computational hardware, and software equipment, has thrust<br />
intelligence communities around the world into a strange new world<br />
of multi-dimensional intelligence. While science and technology<br />
and human capability both remain valuable facets of the same<br />
overlapping intelligence construct, there is an emerging trend of<br />
diametrically opposed camps pushing for one method over the<br />
other. This article explains how in terms of field application and<br />
intelligence information processing and analysis, both HUMINT<br />
and TECHINT could be maximized by the elimination of forced<br />
rivalry and by the encouragement of mutual cooperation that is<br />
currently lacking.<br />
Keywords: cyber, intelligence, TECHINT, HUMINT, science and<br />
technology, national security<br />
<strong>An</strong> earlier version of this paper was published by Frank Valli as “‘HumInt’ <strong>vs</strong>. ‘TechInt’:<br />
A Forced <strong>Intelligence</strong> Dichotomy,” The Security and <strong>Intelligence</strong> Studies Journal 1,<br />
no. 3 (Summer 2014). Parts of this paper were also published in Matthew Crosston,<br />
“American UAV Apartheid and the ‘Blowback’ of New Drone Armies,” New Eastern<br />
Outlook (April 3, 2015).<br />
Dr. Matthew Crosston, professor of political science, is the director of the International<br />
Security and <strong>Intelligence</strong> Studies (ISIS) program at Bellevue University. Frank Valli<br />
earned a Master of Science degree in the International Security and <strong>Intelligence</strong><br />
Studies program at Bellevue University.<br />
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