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When I served as director of the CIA’s Near East Division at Langley, I traveled each month to Tampa to brief then-Central Command chief Gen. Lloyd Austin. The general even then was a voracious and highly sophisticated reader of what U.S. intelligence analysts were learning.
Now as President Biden’s new secretary of Defense, Mr. Austin no doubt will be heavily relying again on the intelligence community as the Pentagon charts a course forward on the wickedly complex challenge of Afghanistan.
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