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Commons Brief · Adaptive Preparedness
A brief on avoiding assumption lock, training with imperfect information, and building adaptation into preparedness.
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Alex Joske
Alex Joske examines Chinese intelligence and influence networks through open-source research into the Ministry of State Security and its global fronts.
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What Al-Qaeda’s public behavior can tell us about organizational confidence, strategic warning, and meaningful change.
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Know Thy Enemy
A downloadable open-source investigation examining the organization, its networks, and the threat it continues to present.
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Television collaboration
Sarah contributed to the National Geographic series and its episode examining the search for Abu Anas al-Libi.
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Investigation
An investigation into the people, relationships, and facilitation networks that sustain Al-Qaeda’s operational reach.
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Know Thy Enemy
An investigation into the warnings, networks, and operational relationships surrounding the October 7 attacks.
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Liza Mundy
Liza Mundy’s history of the women who transformed CIA operations, analysis, and modern targeting.
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Lessons from the intelligence gaps and interconnected jihadist networks that shaped the Benghazi threat environment.
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Ric Prado
Ric Prado recounts a career spanning the Cold War, the Bin Laden Task Force, and the CIA’s Special Activities Group.
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Toby Harnden
Toby Harnden tells the story of Team Alpha, Mike Spann, and the first CIA mission sent into Afghanistan after September 11.
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Amaryllis Fox
Amaryllis Fox offers an intimate memoir of clandestine work, family, identity, and the human side of intelligence operations.
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