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The Europeans are doing much better in terms of developing intelligence studies than Americans are. https://twitter.com/Eselskind/status/1325392695188131840
In the USA, for whatever reason...and I think it was in part a byproduct of the Mercyhurst misnomer...in the post-9/11 environment practitioners thought of intelligence studies as "applied intelligence analysis" with a vocational orientation 1/3
And research universities had enough current and former practitioners to teach it as if it were an experiential subject matter rather than scholarly or academic embedded into conventional frameworks from political science (American govt, foreign policy, security studies)& history
What has ended up happening in the USA is a neglect of intelligence studies as a serious subject of scholarly study, with less emphasis on it than during the Cold War. Right now the European approach to intelligence studies is *so* much healthier than the American approach.
This article highlights some of the good work that is taking place in Europe but it is also representative of a general European approach to serious academic engagement w the subject with an orientation to building understanding in a way that is just not happening in the USA
