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Cold War Dilemmas Credit: DIA History Office Collection 16 Defense Intelligence Agency
As successful as it was in World War II, the U.S. military intelligence structure faced a serious dilemma as Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union rapidly forced policymakers to confront the next threat. Although the need for timely military intelligence was widely recognized, the Army, Navy, and newly founded Air Force still separately collected, produced, and disseminated information. The system proved duplicative, costly, and ineffective, as each Service provided separate, and at times conflicting estimates. Several overlapping problems existed in the management and control of the long-established military attaché system as well. Each Service’s foreign attaché reported separately to their respective ambassadors, and each represented the U.S. separately to the host country military. The result was a duplication of effort both on post and between posts in neighboring countries. Barriers between the Services complicated the coordination of attaché activities with other DoD elements, and the cost of sponsoring three separate attaché offices was an expensive, inefficient use of limited resources. Finally, each attaché office individually collected and disseminated information, which sometimes resulted in confused reporting. The Defense Reorganization Act of 1958 sought to correct these shortcomings by streamlining the channels of authority within the Department of Defense and eliminating much wasteful duplication. DoD intelligence responsibilities, however, remained vertically stovepiped into the component Services. Lines of responsibility were unclear, coordination poor, and products often parochial. Although the Defense Reorganization Act did resolve some problems by rationalizing command authority within DoD, the military intelligence system remained inefficient. Credit: National Archives (Above) U.S. military intelligence capabilities atrophied after World War II, lowering the quality of products such as bomb damage assessments during the Korean War. (Left) The U-2 revolutionized American intelligence analysis of the Soviet threat during the Cold War. It has been key to supporting missions for the warfighter because it provided indications and warning, threat protection, order of battle, targeting, and bomb damage assessment information. A History
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