The Case of the UK: Intelligence Assessment, Priorities and Knowing that you are Being Warned
Journal: Edinburgh University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

Chapter 5 examines the production of intelligence assessments and their impact on policy decision-making in the UK. It’s main focus is on the Joint Intelligence Committee and Defence Intelligence as the leading source of analysis in the UK intelligence community on the Arab uprisings, ISIS and Crimea. The chapter argues that only in the Crimea case did the intelligence community fail to warn. A core reason was that the policy community in the UK was concerned with improving relations with Russia