Interview: Work in progress

摘要

The U.S. is pressing to set up a basic intelligence apparatus for Afghan forces, and the man in charge of setting up that apparatus is U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Robert Ashley, the top allied intelligence officer in Afghanistan. By all accounts, it's a tough job. Afghanistan's national police and army have few means of collecting intelligence on their own, and so the U.S. is building simple versions of signals intelligence collectors and full-motion video aircraft for them. On top of that role, Ashley is the officer who comes under fire whenever the 'Taliban gets off an attack in Kabul -- although he says he doesn't view it as heat: "I try to figure out how it happened, what we may have missed ... so we can inform decision-makers to take action."