>>507459792>I guess the normal pipeline is the opposite, military > intelligenceHonestly, I think we're a special case.
Our political system is born out of the 1974 revolution, very Socialist in nature. And especially against the military.
Basically it was the military which did the revolution but the lower patents among the officier class - the point is from the very start they always feared and distrusted the higher patent military officiers.
This is all the public relations aspect of it.
Of course our rev. had higher ups and shit. As some higher up said back then:
>It's unbelievably stupid to think that a country of 200 thousand armed (military) men could be couped by a few hundred men taking Lisbon without the support of the higher military echelonsAnyway...
So, our regime has always mistrusted the military, especially the higher patents and most especially the few families which have a tradition of filling those higher places in the military hierarchy (as you can imagine, mostly of nobble blood too).
And then there was the PIDE. Which was sort of the secret police / intelligence.
But it was particularly designed to hunt Socialists.
So our regime (socialist) has always feared the information / intelligence sphere as well.
So they try to contain as much these sectors.
We basically do not have military intelligence. We do but it's just regular military guys who then take a course (very easy one) and they just do the most basic shit and inside the country, never abroad.
They barely get any funds, for instance. They purposedly kept in the gutter.
I was civilian intelligence which is like 80 to 90% of the budget and pretty much everything related to abroad.
Our military intel guys can't go on operations abroad and they mostly work on the basis of military diplomats abroad with the great allied powers and as "teachers" with our former colonies.