INTELBRIEFS
July 13, 2020
IntelBrief: Mysterious Explosions Continue to Rock Iran
A number of unexplained explosions have taken place in Iran in June and July 2020. Most notable among them was a June 25 explosion at a facility in the town of Khojir, east of T......
READ MOREJuly 10, 2020
IntelBrief: Politicizing Intelligence is Harmful to the United States
During the lead up to the United States’ catastrophic 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration tried, with some success, to ‘cherry pick’ intelligence that supported......
READ MOREJuly 09, 2020
IntelBrief: Rewarding Bad Behavior? Saudi Arabia and the G-20 Summit in Riyadh
Earlier this week, UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that nearly fifty different individuals and organizations tied to human rights abuses would be sanctioned in the U......
READ MOREJuly 08, 2020
IntelBrief: Can Diplomacy Solve Escalating Tensions over Ethiopia’s Dam Project?
Scholars who study conflict predict that in the future, wars will be fought over access to scarce resources, an issue certain to be exacerbated by climate change and shifting mi......
READ MOREJuly 07, 2020
IntelBrief: De-Platforming Terrorists, Violent Extremists, and other Online Threats
On June 30, 2020, Facebook announced a major strategic network disruption over multiple platforms related to the social media presence of the anti-government movement known as t......
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