The US Army had previously pointed out a similar issue to the BBC article, where a lack of internal guidance and oversight was leading to analysis and collectio

The US Army had previously pointed out a similar issue to the BBC article, where a lack of internal guidance and oversight was leading to analysis and collection of non-optimal data [1]. Just like in academia, there seems to be a bit of a tension in getting to useful predictive insights to issues. [1] http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/AfghanistanMGFlynn_Jan2010.pdf http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Afghanistan...