• Yom Kippur War 1973. • 9/11. • Hamas attacks 2023.
Three massive intelligence failures that led to thousands of deaths and untold suffering.

But the real question is this: Were these real intelligence failures, where the growing threat was missed by the spies, agents, and analysts? Or did the intelligence apparatus sound warnings, but the bureaucrats and politicians chose to ignore them? We call both “intelligence failures,” but the difference is profound and the remedy is quite different.

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