Tom Spahr is back in the studio with another insightful discussion focused on data management, refinement, and...
Intelligence
Articles and podcast episodes that examine the role of intelligence in a world where information is everywhere and the global security environment moves and evolves at breakneck speed.
Depending on who you talk to, artificial intelligence (AI) will either be the ruination of mankind or...
The United States Air Force Security Service (USAFSS) was created in October 1948, just 13 months after...
Regular listeners might remember previous episodes in which we looked at the 2022 National Security Strategy and...
One of the most important building blocks of a successful strategic endeavor is a capable and effective...
Any conversation has two very basic players, the sender and the receiver. The intelligence conversation, at its...
The war in Ukraine has been a fascinating study of the democratization of intelligence. That's a phrase...
Admit it. In your most self-aggrandizing dreams you're as charming as Sydney Bristow, as lethal as Jason...
As the situation in Afghanistan has unfolded in the last several weeks, many have questioned how the...
The President, and all policy makers should have the unvarnished truth as best as the intelligence community...
Military intelligence is important, but it isn’t the whole world As quoted from David Oakley’s book, Subordinating Intelligence:...
The intelligence community typically focuses too much on the here-and-now and urgent, as opposed to the more...
How do we take an institution … that is designed to collect sensitive material and incorporate everything...
It’s silly to expect that intelligence will always get it right. WAR ROOM welcomes Dr. Richard Betts...
What a President or any other senior leader brings with him or her to office in inevitably...
Failure is not just the result of one part of the equation. [Sometimes] you can give the...
For national security officials who are wading through floods of information, how do they find that nugget,...