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UK INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY (2) answer(s).
 
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British intelligence failures in Iraq / Morrison, John N L   Journal Article
Morrison, John N L Journal Article
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Publication 2011.
Summary/Abstract This article looks at specific instances of how the United Kingdom's strategic culture dealt with two specific perceived security challenges - Afghanistan as the home of terrorism and Iraq as the supposed possessor of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) - and how the UK's cultural background both determined and misled those involved in the intelligence cycle. These were not new problems - the UK intelligence community had been aware of the potential for cultural bias for decades but repeatedly failed to learn the appropriate lessons. In the case of Iraq these endemic problems led to failures at all four stages of the traditional intelligence cycle - requirement-setting, collection, assessment and dissemination. The overall result was a loss of public confidence in intelligence which may have lessened its overall influence in the wider strategic culture for many years. However, the main blame attaches to the politicians who misused and abused intelligence to justify their purely political decisions to undertake aggression against a sovereign state.
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Tracking terrorist networks: problems of intelligence sharing within the UK intelligence community / Field, Antony   Journal Article
Field, Antony Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract The 7/7 terrorist attacks demonstrated that there were some clear deficiencies with the organisation of the United Kingdom's counter-terrorism intelligence community. In the aftermath of the attacks, there were moves to develop a more robust 'counter-terrorism network' in the United Kingdom that would facilitate better communication and intelligence sharing. While recent developments are to be welcomed, the reforms have not addressed some of the fundamental cultural, institutional and technological issues at the heart of the problem. The creation of an effective counter-terrorism network demands that information flows more freely through the intelligence community and that institutional boundaries are broken down. Until these obstacles have been overcome, the new counter-terrorism network will continue to be hampered by the same old problems of intelligence sharing.
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