The new GSS chief, Ronen Bar, who is expected to take office in the coming days, published an extensive article last April on the Modiin Heritage Heritage website, in which it can be assumed in retrospect that he outlined the way he would lead the General Security Service in the coming years.
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In an article entitled "Leadership Under the Fire of Integrity," Bar notes that in light of developments in the field of intelligence, there is no escape from integration between the various bodies, and the blurring of traditional boundaries that existed between them.
"The entry of the cyber dimension and the changes in the state world, in effect, make the traditional inter-organizational boundaries and command hierarchical processes, all so effective on the battlefield or in operation, inhibiting factors in integrated systems, influencing rival purposes and building an effective force," Barr noted in his article.
"In the age of spectrum and cyber, even a seemingly clear issue, such as state sovereignty, cannot be reduced to the question of geographical boundaries."
Ronen Bar with Prime Minister Bennett, Photo: Kobi Gideon / GPO
"Not only are efforts to create access to classified information, but also attempts to influence publics and individuals, to create 'truth' and strengthen and disrupt information and processes in a way that may undermine regimes and methods of governance. "More about creating boundaries of responsibility or specialization, both within the security organizations and certainly between them, and it also requires a different organization."
Provide solutions in the face of the opponent's renewed actions
Bar warned that security government organizations may be exposed to difficulty in creating a rapid response to the accelerated pace of change, as its people may be drawn to creating hierarchical and cumbersome solutions that are inconsistent with the rate of change on the opposing side.
On the other hand, other bodies are able to act more quickly and efficiently, which raises the need for integration between the various bodies - the GSS, the Mossad, the IDF, the Israel Police and the National Cyber Headquarters - in order to provide an effective solution to the new situation.
"Attempts to make a division of dichotomous responsibility for collection, equivalent to a division in the kinetic world, are likely to fail," the new GSS chief stressed.
To this end, Bar noted, a number of inter-organizational actions are needed, including coordination between the bodies that will allow entry into a "fellow body," for the purpose of realizing one task or another and more advanced cooperation.
"It will be difficult today to find operations, operational processes and even projects that do not take place in one form or another," he wrote, noting that there is a need for advanced integration between organizations that includes "joint formulation of purposes, division and coordination of efforts and agreed and unified priority." Of maximizing interests in front of intelligence and security bodies from member countries and presenting a uniform and integrated front, which will also enable the transfer of information that comes from them in a wide and fast distribution.
GSS Chief Ronen Bar, Photo: Yossi Zeliger
"In the current conduct, the default in the face of an opponent or a common denominator is sharing. This is the basic layer and it is a necessary condition that allows, but does not provide, for the construction of integrated mechanisms," he wrote.
A model for cooperation between security bodies in Israel
The new head of the GSS called for the creation of a six-tier model for cooperation - joint leadership processes to coordinate purpose and strategy with an arena or opponent, create management and execution mechanisms that are suitable for a common problem, build an inter-organizational communication system, create trust and terminology, This challenge.
Bar called for the transfer of factors between organizations in the process of screaming manpower, because in his view "screaming manpower as part of a development trajectory is another way to achieve goals. Small numbers of screams make a big difference."
He also noted that although there is room to maintain different DNA between organizations, it is also necessary to develop and know how to cooperate, by exchanging quality personnel between the organizations - something that will allow the receiving organization the ability and knowledge, creating a manager with knowledge Wider, and experience and connections, as well as promotion options.
This idea, one can only assume, will also receive support in the Mossad, for example, since both Bar and David Barnea, the head of the new Mossad, both enlisted in the General Staff patrol that year and know very well how to cooperate.
