- Title
- Politicising intelligence: intelligence failures and politics
- Creator
- Imre, Rob
- Relation
- Spooked: The Truth About Intelligence in Australia p. 288-308
- Relation
- https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/spooked_the-truth-about-intelligence-and-security-in-australia/
- Publisher
- University of New South Wales Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- In September 2003 the United States sent in more than 100000 troops with a 'coalition of the willing,' which included Australia, joining over 200000 further troops and associated private contractors and support people in the invasion of Iraq. the beginning of this conflict was widely disputed, with claims ranging from a 'major intelligence failure to a politicisation of the data surrounding the weapons capacity of the Iraqi armed forces. Intelligence can 'fail' for any number of reasons, and these also depend on the context and interpretation. For example, was it an intelligence failure to convince a number of countries of the necessity for war? Or would it have been considered a failure of intelligence not convince anyone that the regime of Saddam Hussein need to be toppled? In either case, people in the extensive bureaucracies of intelligence services are public servants, charged with duties involved in gathering information about other, sometimes hostile, states. But to picture this as a set of people who are necessarily loyal to one state, competing with others who are necessarily loyal to another state, is quite obviously a simplistic interpretation.
- Subject
- Iraq War; intelligence; coalition of the willing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1058430
- Identifier
- uon:16405
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781742233888
- Language
- eng
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