Amy Zegart and Michael Morell
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms
Why US Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail
Foreign Affairs, 2019
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America’s intelligence community must keep pace with changing threats.
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No military can do its job well without good intelligence. Yet as the threat landscape changes, so must a country’s intelligence-gathering strategy. As the old saying goes, America’s intelligence community continues to prepare to fight the last war. Over the past decade, it has perfected its ability to track down terrorists, but has struggled to keep pace with rapidly developing technologies that are narrowing America’s edge over its adversaries. In an essay in Foreign Affairs, Amy Zegart and Michael Morell argue in favor of far-reaching intelligence reforms and a better collaboration between the technology sector and the government.
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About the Authors
Amy Zegart is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Michael Morell is former Deputy Director and Acting Director of the CIA and Global Chair of the Geopolitical Risk Practice at Beacon Global Strategies.
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