Amy Zegart
Amy Zegart
Amy Zegartis an American academic. She serves as the co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperationat Stanford University; a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; and Professor of Political Economyat the Stanford Graduate School of Business...
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The intelligence community was stuck. It was stuck in Cold War ways, Cold War thinking, Cold War culture.
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Putting a lot of money and time in preparedness efforts where you may never see what you hope will never happen is not a politically attractive thing to do. The payoff is too far in advance.
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Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC.
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If I'm putting together my list of bad guys ... I wouldn't put universities at the top of the list.
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You had really junior analysts assigned to the biggest assignments.
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There are a lot of people trying to reinvent the wheel in different localities. If you're the mayor of Poughkeepsie or Atlanta or San Diego, it's not easy to know what the best practice is.