Yes it's useful, but try reading again where I said it's not the language they would demand most, because last I checked most hostile powers or competitors don't speak spanish. Just...your reading ability.
Yes, why would we not require the economist who never leaves Langley to have weapons and self defense training. Yup, you are an HR genius.
That depends if you consider the situation in Mexico to not be hostile and how long you think they will let that situation play out without eventual intervention. Most people think within 5-10 years USA will be much more involved. Could be sooner seeing how the border issues is increasing the overall risks and threats.
It’s a rating scale. The whole physical fitness assessment is based on points. It’s the same for most federal 1811 series positions. Since she tested as a female she’d need 65 to 67.4 seconds to get 0 points (not even the worst score) and 49.9 or less seconds to get 10 points (the best score). Obviously you can score 2-9 in between those times. The one thing I’ve always loved about the feds is how strict they are. I’m currently in 3 hiring processes with 6 years being my longest. The government shutdown, Covid, and then my surgery has completely fucked me and set me back years so we’ll see what’s up around Christmas. Im just waiting it out while working for CPD but current events make me think my days doing patrol are numbered.
Again, the vast majority of military intelligence is civilian, and most of the DIA have never served in the military. The DIA doesn't require physical training and weapons training. Jesus, you are dense.
CIA cannot operate domestically, so border issues and anything that close isn't their purview in practical terms.
Yeah, the other guy seems to think it's necessary to make sure every analyst and office employee is fucking Jack Ryan lol. He wants the CIA to make an effort of training every domestic employee in self defense, it's batshit inefficient.
I'm not just talking about DIA, I'm talking about the intelligence officers in the military and saying I agree with that way of thinking more so than them not having any physical or weapons training. You have to have an understanding of combat to fully understand it. If not it's all theory and that's where the disconnect happens. You won't fully understand things and improperly analyze situations. That's like thinking the best coaches/trainers for fighting are the ones that never had any training or fights at all. What intelligence would they be able to offer in those situations then?
That level of military intelligence isn't what you think. They are largely removed from the policy process, especially in peacetime. The bulk of military intelligence is going to be the DIA.
Most intelligence work, regardless of agency, has absolutely nothing to do with combat.
Again, what a massive waste of fucking resources. Why would I teach a PHd economist that, it makes no sense. Offer it if they want, but mandating it is moronic. Thank god you are not in charge of an intelligence agency.
How does this help a translator translate better or an economist econ better? It doesn't, it's a waste.
You think people working on intelligence for military shouldn't have any knowledge of combat and the military?
Again, the DIA is overwhelmingly civilian and the majority have never served in the military.
Again, most of what the CIA deals with has nothing to do with combat. There is a reason veterans are just 15 percent of their workforce.
Ya bro, most of geopolitical chess is pretty goddamn boring and has nothing to do with combat.
Is that why the actual CIA has little resemblance to your fever dream of an agency of Jack Ryans?
Lol it is funny how many people in this thread act like every CIA employee has to be James Bond.
hmmm, you might be onto something here but I would say the left are getting played like a fiddle in another way. It's a psyop to become untouchable from any criticism of most of the left if they think they're on their side, after all they're facing flack from "alt-right nazis" or whatever.
I'm not saying they have to be veterans but have an understanding of combat at least. You are basically game planning for situations that deal with military and combat situations. How well can you game plan or predict the moves they will make if you don't have a good understanding of that? Who would make better game plans in a fight in mma? Someone who understands fighting and the moves that his fighter and their opponents are doing, or someone that doesn't have any of that knowledge? What type of game plan would they make? Would they be able to properly know their game plan before hand based on their knowledge of their fighting style and abilities? Or will it be just a bunch of yelling like, "get up! Punch, kick! Do the same thing next round! Try to finish them! Head mOoVeMent!" Because that's what happens when the coach/trainer doesn't have that type of knowledge in mma. It's the same concept for everything.
Most of intelligence work has zilch to do with combat or military scenarios. I'm not sure what part of this fact is unclear to you.
I'm not saying all of intelligence deals with combat, but if you are dealing with military planning and terrorists and things that deal with combat that knowledge is important as well. Can't properly assess risks and predict their moves if you don't understand why they might do things that way, or what they are trying to set up by doing things a certain way. If you don't have that knowledge base to understand military or combat strategy you will be reacting to everything instead, always going to be steps behind. How would you know how to asses the situation and how many troops is needed or what weapons, vehicles are needed? You would have to depend on others knowledge and the planning will be delayed and things would have to be explained and strategies may not be the best because of that lack of knowledge. To me all of the knowledge and skills is important, it's how you can properly game plan and assess things instead of being taken by surprise and reacting after the fact.
Again, this is a small segment of what intelligence agencies do, most of their work is boring as shit (politics, econ, psychology of leaders, etc). If a job requires technical expertise...guess what, they'll hire a guy or gal with that expertise already.
