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New article in Intelligence and National Security titled "Invisible bodies of war: British servicewomen on covert operations in Northern Ireland" by Hannah West at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article titled "A country with “its own special problems”: domestic surveillance in Scotland during the Second World War" by Michelle Walker, published in Intelligence and National Security at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New (free to access) article published in Intelligence and National Security titled: "Veiled intentions: Hamas’s strategic deception and intelligence success on 7 October 2023 by Muhanad Seloom at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From @jonathanrugman.bsky.social’s Killing In The Consulate

New article titled "The mathematical machinery of causal inference: from data to decision advantage" by Stephen Matthew Elin, published in Intelligence and National Security: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article published in Intelligence and National Security (open access) by Peter de Werd titled "The value of engaged critique: civic intelligence oversight and the freedom of information in the Netherlands" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Special issue of Intelligence and National Security Published! Topic is "Rethinking Strategic Warning and Intelligence Failure in an Era of Global Transformation" See details here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fint20/4...

Special issue of Intelligence and National Security Published! Topic is "Rethinking Strategic Warning and Intelligence Failure in an Era of Global Transformation" See details here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fint20/4...

Please join us in congratulating @smarrin.bsky.social and Hamilton Bean. Both just hit 2,000 citations, but that's only a small measure of their contributions to Intelligence Studies. scholar.google.com/citations?us... scholar.google.com/citations?us...

This is another reason that demanding the admin make the case for war to Congress and the US public is so important: to make sure the admin has stress tested not just the goals, but also the operational arrangements (including veto-power over Israeli operations), and also that it has an exit plan.

"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.

Two thumbs up for Kevin Riehle's new book on #counterintelligence. Looks like a great companion to James M. Olson's classic To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence. Hope #FBI Academy got a copy. www.rienner.com/title/Counte...

This is how authoritarian governments operate: They don’t just ignore the truth they demand that others rewrite it to suit their goals. And in this case, the cost is real human lives migrants being deported under false pretenses, denied basic legal rights, and sent into danger.

Good article about intelligence analysis here: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Not good. The IC provides analysis independent of policy preferences. When those in power do not want to hear inconvenient facts & unwanted interpretation & punish messengers that provide it, that undermines the reason the IC was created in the first place www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

New article in Intelligence and National Security titled "Trust without knowledge? UK intelligence agencies and the public trust conundrum" by Ged Hiscoke, Stephen Ward & Daniel Lomas at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article on British intelligence history written by Bruce Berkowitz and published in Intelligence and National Security titled "William Playfair, pioneer of modern intelligence" with link here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New RAND report on intelligence studies research titled "Furthering Intelligence Research: How the National Intelligence University Can Fill Critical Gaps for Intelligence Research" here: www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

New article published in Intelligence and National Security titled "Is the mere existence of an intelligence committee enough? Learning from the case study of the Finnish parliament" by Tapio Raunio at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

RIP Robert Sinclar--author of CIA's "Thinking and Writing: Cognitive Science and Intelligence Analysis." "He was one of the founding members of the CIA Canoe Pool, commuting to the CIA's Langley, VA offices by canoe across the Potomac River" www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

From Thomas Boghardt: "The International Intelligence History Association has issued a call for their intelligence history book prize 2025. For more information, see: intelligence-history.org?p=1521

Call for papers for Israeli intelligence studies conference (28-29 October 2025), with proposals due 31 July 2025. See details below...good opportunity for intelligence studies scholars and practitioners here!

New article published, titled "NOCs and illegals in the current surveillance landscape: can mimicry help overcome evolving challenges?" by Grigorij Serscikov, at the journal Intelligence and National Security, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This might be a great example of analytic intelligence failure due to what looks like it not only analytic error but analytic fraud

Flashback [Spoiler: special prosecutor recommended charges for gross negligence in mishandling national defense information]

Call for papers for intelligence studies conference in Turkey on 10-12 October 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. It is organized by Turkey's National Intelligence Academy. Additional details here: mia.edu.tr/sayfa-call-f...

Seems important www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Fear of retaliation for witnessing someone being disappeared from the streets for speech.

Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Call for papers for intelligence studies conference in Turkey on 10-12 October 2025 in Ankara, Turkey. It is organized by Turkey's National Intelligence Academy. Additional details here: mia.edu.tr/sayfa-call-f...

New article on "Visualizing versus verbalizing uncertainty in intelligence analysis" by Mandeep K. Dhami, Jessica K. Witt & Peter De Werd, published in the journal Intelligence and National Security here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

New addition Journal article: Visualizing versus verbalizing uncertainty in intelligence analysis by Mandeep K. Dhami, Jessica K. Witt, Peter De Werd (published 15-03-2025) https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2468049

Article by Thomas Fingar (former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis) on "Optimizing intelligence support: guidelines for policymakers and intelligence analysts" as published in the journal Intelligence and National Security, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apropos of nothing, there's an interesting piece in this issue of The Bulletin of the Canadian Foreign Service Forum giving a first-person account of a Canadian military policeman in Tehran who was involved in the Argo/houseguests situation and the good work he did to help get our diplomats out.

We have a cover! My thanks to Georgetown University Press for their hard work. Photo of the "father of intelligence analysis" Sherman Kent in a very un-pc pose!

I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy

Article titled "Improving Intelligence Studies as an Academic Discipline" available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Article titled "Intelligence Studies Centers: Making Scholarship on Intelligence Analysis Useful" at www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is unexpurgated Great Replacement Theory. Pure conspiratorial racism.

Okay, wait, did Trump exempt his own alma mater (UPenn), Barron’s current undergrad (NYU), and Eric’s undergrad and Tiffany’s law school (Georgetown) almost uniquely (besides Dartmouth — am I forgetting someone who went there?) out of this tier of schools? Because that is kind of hilarious

This RUSI commentary was written by a faculty member (Gian Pili) and 2 undergraduates from JMU's Intelligence Analysis Program rusi.org/explore-our-...

Ratcliffe is sacrificing the future of CIA--firing recent hires creates a talent gap that will ultimately need to be filled. But now the pipeline will narrow as exceptional people look elsewhere for jobs. He not only looks like Michael Scott of The Office, he manages like him. Sigh.

New article (ungated, free to access) in Intelligence and National Security titled: "Unravelling effectiveness in intelligence: a systematic review" by Gideon Manger at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Using a fictitious arms trafficking case, we demonstrate the compatibility of a strength-of-knowledge approach to quality with the current understanding of confidence in intelligence studies.” doi.org/10.1080/0268...

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