Was the coronavirus outbreak an intelligence failure?
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Authors
Dahl, Erik J.
Subjects
National security
Pandemic
CIA
World Health Organization (WHO)
National Security Agency
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coronavirus 2020
Centers for Disease Control
Pandemic
CIA
World Health Organization (WHO)
National Security Agency
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coronavirus 2020
Centers for Disease Control
Advisors
Date of Issue
2020-06-15
Date
2020-06-15
Publisher
theconversation.com
Language
en_US
Abstract
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, it’s clear that having better information sooner, and acting more quickly on what was known, could have slowed the spread of the outbreak and saved more people’s lives. There may be finger-pointing about who should have done better – and President Donald Trump has already begun laying blame. But as a former naval intelligence officer who teaches and studies the U.S. intelligence community, I believe it’s useful to look at the whole process of how information about diseases gets collected and processed, by the U.S. government but also by many other organizations around the world.
Type
Article
Description
17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under review.
The article of record as published may be found at https://theconversation.com/was-the-coronavirus-outbreak-an-intelligence-failure-139450
The article of record as published may be found at https://theconversation.com/was-the-coronavirus-outbreak-an-intelligence-failure-139450
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Department
National Security Affairs (NSA)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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NPS Report Number
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Funder
Format
6 p.
Citation
Dahl, Erik J. Was the coronavirus outbreak an intelligence failure? June 15, 2020. https://theconversation.com/was-the-coronavirus-outbreak-an-intelligence-failure-139450
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