It is a sadness, but a reality, that unpleasant intelligence reports are unwanted by administrators in any nation. Reports taken as real must be acted on. That means that administrators must get off their backsides and work; also that they must expend or ask for more resources. Asking for more than they were allotted is one sure way of getting the disapproval of their superiors, those who rate and promote or demote. It is easy for the finer judgment of superiors to override the judgment of their inferior ranked officers in the field. What would field officers know? They are only in contact with or surveying the enemy. Administrators have the higher overview and rank and therefore their judgment is best, or at least cannot be disputed by those below without rebuke or adverse consequences.

The weakness lies within the system. It is an old weakness that serves the enemy well. For the intelligence services, of all offices, know the enemy best. But administration is really mainly interested in its own personal enemies, that is, anyone who threatens its power base. Such as those who bring bad or alarmist news; and those who cannot be fully informed to think for themselves: the public. The nation's enemies come a poor third in importance of attention and action. Self-interest rules. Until an enemy supplants it with its own self-interest.