Consider a 2014interview with General Michael Flynn, who summed up his view of the world shortly before retiring as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon’s equivalent of the CIA with seventeen thousand employees. “I spend two to three hours reading intelligence reports,” he said. “I will frankly tell you that what I see each day is the most uncertain, chaotic, and confused international environment that I’ve witnessed in my entire career. There were probably more dangerous times such as when the Nazis and (Japanese) imperialists were trying to dominate the world, but we’re in another very dangerous era……I think we’re in a period of prolonged societal conflict that is pretty unprecedented.”1