REVIEW: Code of the Street

https://readfomag.com/2015/10/review-code-of-the-street/

Understanding the human terrain is one of the foremost important abilities for an intelligence analyst involved in conflicts of the people.  Past the soldiers and their weapons lies a battlefield, often containing people.  And in the insurgencies faced by the U.S. military over the past decade, it’s these people who have a say in determining your failure or success.  The human terrain contains a multitude of timely and accurate intelligence information.  It also contains one of your worst counterintelligence threats.  Therefore your ability to interact with the populace to gain their trust and cooperation is key.  Not only can the populace shower you with actionable intelligence information, but they can also shield you from an adversary’s intelligence collection against you.  Whoever wins the populace — in what’s called the parallel war — gains innumerable eyes and ears, which help you make sense of the battlespace and ultimately accomplish your mission.