Consider a 2014 interview with General Michael Flynn, who summed up his view of the world shortly before retiring as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon’s equivalent of the CIA with seventeen thousand employees. “I come into this office every morning, and other than a short jog to clear my head, I spend two to three hours reading intelligence reports,” he said. “I will frankly tell you that what I see each day is the most uncertain, chaotic, and confused international environment that I’ve witnessed in my entire career. There were probably more dangerous times such as
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