> In one chapter of the book, he provides a template for how to construct an effective targets machine drawing on “big data” that a human brain could not proces

> In one chapter of the book, he provides a template for how to construct an effective targets machine drawing on “big data” that a human brain could not process. “The machine needs enough data regarding the battlefield, the population, visual information, cellular data, social media connections, pictures, cellphone contacts,” he writes. “The more data and the more varied it is, the better.” They should hold more strategy-oriented courses at the Israel Military Academy, that is if they have a military academy worthy of that name and if this intelligence guy is a graduate of one. Because it looks like he can look no further than the tactical level ("how do we kill leader X of enemy group Y at time moment Z?"), which is a suicidal thing to have as your top-military commanders in the middle to long term (because, no, killing enemy leaders X1...Xn won't win you any wars in the middle to long term).