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Was the coronavirus outbreak an intelligence failure?

  • Written by Erik J. Dahl, Associate Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
imageDan Coats, left, then director of national intelligence, told Congress in 2019 about the potential danger of a pandemic.Office of the Director of National Intelligence

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...

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