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Nope, the weakest link is always the human link. Until you get AGIs, HUMINT is king.

No, Sun Tzu had placed great emphasis on what we know as HUMINT and HUMINT has produced more victories than even SIGINT has in its modern incarnation has in victories and failures. Why the American Revolution lasted until victory was because George Washington was a master spymaster and had a...

Thing is, it is going to be vital in the future, as Sun Tzu understood that information is vital. Ignore him at your own peril (and life).

Then you are an idiot, HUMINT is going to be more vital than ever even as sensor density increases.

Given history, you're wrong in that regard. SIGINT is something that doesn't get you nukes or get you to infiltrate MI5 to the point that you've got at least a person near the top and feeding you immense amounts of information about what they're doing to your other spy rings or literally run...

Nope, but that has been something of a fatal flaw in the West IC's outlook. HUMINT is the core of intelligence work, no doubts about it. You get farther by HUMINT resources than SIGINT and Cyberwar resources. That's a sad fact in intelligence work. That is why the British had been penetrated by...

Not exactly, as Russia's HUMINT abilities are just stupid good. They're probably the best in that area and will be for the foreseeable future. The 'West' mostly focused on SIGINT and Cyberwar because most of the ICs in the 'West' didn't have the sheer institutional knowledge of HUMINT that the...