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Experts React: Assessing the Israeli Intelligence and Potential Policy Failure
The devastating Hamas attack surprised Israel and represented a massive failure for its intelligence services. A collection of CSIS experts examine different aspects of this failure.
Commentary by Jessica Davis Tricia Bacon Emily Harding and Daniel Byman — October 25, 2023

How Could Israeli Intelligence Miss the Hamas Invasion Plans?
Commentary by Emily Harding — October 11, 2023

Biodefense Posture Review Raises Alarms about New Threats but Speaks Softly on China
Critical Questions by Emily Harding and J. Stephen Morrison — August 23, 2023

China's Strategy of Political Warfare
Report by Seth G. Jones Emily Harding Catrina Doxsee Jake Harrington and Riley McCabe — August 2, 2023
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Fireside Chat with LTG Berrier
Transcript — November 1, 2023
Can the United States Equip Israel while Simultaneously Equipping Ukraine and Taiwan?
Critical Questions by Mark F. Cancian — October 12, 2023
China's Strategy of Political Warfare: Views from Congress
Transcript — September 28, 2023
Army OSINT: Defining a New Course
Transcript — September 12, 2023
Using Unclassified U.S. Government Reporting in America’s Global Battles of Influence
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — September 6, 2023
Asked and Answered: China’s Strategy of Political Warfare
Commentary by Seth G. Jones and Lauren Adler — August 3, 2023
China's Strategy of Political Warfare
Report by Seth G. Jones Emily Harding Catrina Doxsee Jake Harrington and Riley McCabe — August 2, 2023
Building Barriers and Bridges: The Need for International Cooperation to Counter the Caribbean-Europe Drug Trade
Report by Christopher Hernandez-Roy and Rubi Bledsoe — July 14, 2023
Re-platformed Planet? Implications of the Rise and Spread of Chinese Platform Technologies
Report by Peter Raymond — March 29, 2023
The 2023 Edition of the Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — March 13, 2023