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Published:Wednesday | August 30, 2023 | 8:46 AMKent Harrington for Project Syndicate

GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS: Studies of the role of intelligence operations inevitably have a Rashomon-like quality, with the same events yielding various, sometimes contradictory, interpretations. The world of intelligence, after all, is one of...

Published:Wednesday | July 19, 2023 | 7:59 AMKent Harrington for Project Syndicate

ATLANTA: Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin may have played his assigned role by reportedly meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on June 29. But notwithstanding the contrived show of unity, it will not have been lost on...

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2023 | 6:33 AMKent Harrington for Project Syndicate

ATLANTA: The US intelligence community’s annual threat assessment for 2023 certainly cannot be faulted for having a narrow focus or Pollyanna perspective. From a rising China, Russian aggression, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions to climate...

Published:Wednesday | February 15, 2023 | 9:28 AMKent Harrington for Project Syndicate

ATLANTA : Voltaire famously warned that anyone who can make people believe absurdities can make them commit atrocities. Two and a half centuries later, an insurrection at the US Capitol by those who believed Donald Trump’s lies confirmed...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2022 | 8:27 AMA Digital Integration & Marketing production, Kent Harrington for Project Syndicate

ATLANTA :Last month, when US National Intelligence Director Avril Haines presented the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment to the Senate Intelligence Committee, committee members praised her for the “excellent work”...

Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2021 | 11:43 PMKent Harrington for Project Syndicate

ATLANTA – With vaccinations raising hopes for an end to the pandemic, predictions about the post-COVID world are multiplying fast. From envisioning a reordered economy to forecasting how people will live, work, and play, experts are doing...

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