Christopher C. Thornlow's scientific contributions

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The tragedy of 11 September 2001 revealed two major shortcomings: the US military and the Department of Defense's inability to respond quickly to and defend against the threat posed by foreign terrorists to the United States, and the inability of the Intelligence and Law Enforcement Communities to fuse and analyze foreign threat intelligence with d...

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... He goes on to say that J2, with the responsibility for homeland defense intelligence, has a twofold focus: analyzing intelligence threats outside the U.S. and within its AOR. Because it is focused on both threats, it makes USNORTHCOM J2 logically suited to deal with the fusion of "traditional and non-traditional intelligence information, creating that fused analytic picture for both the Commander of USNORTHCOM and the rest of the Intelligence Community" (Thornlow, 2005). In ...