Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when ... ... understanding this process (and more importantly the failure of the intelligence community and state department to make inroads against ... ... reality.
Reality in America, if you are not able to hook into upward mobility and access privileged success, is a fairly dull and ... ... could ever think plausible.
Against this backdrop, it is inexcusable that American agents find themselves at a loss to understand ...
There is no stronger example of the schizophrenic nature of American foreign policy toward Russia than comparing statements written in the formal National Security Strategy (NSS) of President Obama with actual testimony given by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In 2010 the NSS asserted that the U.S. would endeavor to ‘build a stable, substantive, multidimensional relationship with Russia, based on mutual interests.’ What’s more, the NSS called Russia a 21st century ...
... Centre or the Brookings Institution in Washington DC are regular go-to places for the media when seeking expert opinion and analysis. However, these centers of independent... ... foreign policy formulation is to determine a country’s own national interests and security dilemma and craft an independent position that can best achieve optimal goals... ... force-influence its foreign policy. So why should Russia? It is this very simple and straightforward question that seems to never be asked by what are otherwise august media institutions...
... on terrorist targets after 9/11 to glean greater intelligence and information. Since that release there ... ... about their own people, country, government, and its foreign affairs. Let's just break this down ... ... supposedly now over, the one we used to call the Global War on Terror. So the 'shock' must ... ... the bogus semantics game being played out with the media now in the report’s aftermath. “Yes ... ... cannot prove that was actually the case, a direct causal link, but I am pretty sure SOME information EVENTUALLY ...
Anyone who has worked through post-mortems on the Iraq war is familiar with the pitfalls associated with ‘groupthink’ ... ... information. Others pointed to embedded preconceptions within the Intelligence Community itself, making it impossible to jump off ... ... ‘factor wars’ designed to show that one favorite causal factor is more important than another, concentrating instead ... ... to develop degree programs focused on intelligence and national security, they have followed the military-friendly school model,...
Common complaints within Intelligence Studies about the examination of foreign intelligence ... ... Perhaps most interesting and fairly unexpected is how in terms of security affairs American understanding about Russia seems to be ... ... officials within the Russian Federation since the end of the Cold War to decry a new foreign policy strategy and to instigate new ... ... intense historical and cultural impacts, possibly going back thousands of years. Organizational cultural conditions will instead ...
... since 2004, meaning there has basically been war in Yemen as long as there has been war ... ... hats’ and ‘bad guy hats’ into foreign affairs: BOTH sides were right in ... .... The only sustained message given in the media, coming from the government, is that ... ... strikes are actually being done by the American Intelligence Community, namely the CIA, in ... ... has always made connections and leveled accusations of Iranian involvement and support ... ... potential danger to their sovereign national security interests in the Gulf and beyond....
... us who have followed this conflict for the past half year, we have had heard this accusation at least half a dozen times. Sometimes there has been evidence to partially... ... INTO UKRAINE OR LAUNCHED ANY OFFENSIVES. Given this indisputable evidence that even intelligence and diplomatic agencies in the West admit, it seems that Russia was punished... ... concern in the West is that they will try to hunker down for ‘extended urban warfare.’ The irony of course is that the force in Eastern Ukraine so far responsible...
The Intelligence Community, regardless of regime type, has famously always tried to co-opt ... ... ultimately adopt advancements and evolutions in technology, especially in terms of media. Newspapers, radio, and television have long been appropriated in order to influence... ... potential to facilitate protest and civil disobedience if other factors on the ground warrant such behavior. It is also a reminder that those regimes where it is likely to...
... the state as a whole. Since the dissolution took place within the context of the Cold War and the ideological ‘war’ that was capitalism versus communism, with... ... history, The Pirates of the Caribbean, is actually a fantastic teaching tool for this accusation. In the very first film, when Elizabeth was taken aboard the Black Pearl to... ... publicly, than the United States.
Putin has put hundreds, if not thousands, of intelligence agents into Eastern Ukraine and they are causing all of the unrest.
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