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How useful are our intelligence agencies? To what degree are they blinded by prejudice and institutional needs?

Intelligence about foreigners — state and non-state actors — is vital for the US government, of course.  But how useful has US intelligence been in practice?  This post is the first in a series examining several perspectives from the large literature on this important subject.  The other chapters are (2)  About our intelligence agences: the struggle to …

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New Books, with insights about our changing world

Here reviews of two books, each revealing much about the national defense machinery of western nations.  I recommend reading both in full. “Other People’s Mail“, Bernard Porter, London Review of Books, 19 November 2009 — Review of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew “The Lies They Told“, Jacob Heilbrunn, …

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