The Defense Department is scrutinizing the sprawling system of "intelligence-like organizations" that sprang up to support combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq with an eye toward shrinking the number needed as the U.S. military begins to withdraw troops from both countries, according to a Jan. 28 memo from the department's intelligence chief. The memo, signed by Thomas Ferguson, the acting under secretary of defense for intelligence, directs the heads of the military and intelligence communities to monitor the “intelligence and...
