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"Israeli Military Intelligence" – with IDF Brig. General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser


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Summary

Yossi Kuperwasser (Twitter; Website) joins Andrew (TwitterLinkedIn) to discuss the Israeli intelligence community. Yossi is the former head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence.


*FULL SHOWNOTES & FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE*


What You’ll LearnIntelligence
  • The layout of Israeli intelligence
  • The First and Second Intifadas
  • Israel’s complicated position in the Middle East
  • Relationship between Israeli and American ICs
  • Reflections
    • Intelligence as a learning process
    • The importance and difficulty of trust 
    • And much, much more …


      *FULL SHOWNOTES & FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE*



      Quote of the Week

      “That's the problem of intelligence - It's an ongoing learning process. And if you don't learn all the time to enable you to adjust to the developing situation, you are going to fail.” – Yossi Kuperwasser.

      Resources *SpyCasts*
      • The Counterterrorism and Counter WMD Strategist with Dexter Ingram (2022)
      • Son of Hamas, Spy for Israel with Mosab Hassan Yousef and Gonen Ben Yitzhak (2010)
      • Israeli Intelligence and the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case with Ron Olive (2007)
        *Beginner Resources*
        • History of Israel, Encyclopedia Britannica [encyclopedia entry]
        • What you need to know about the 1987 Intifada, PBS (2019) [article]
        • The Oslo Accords, 25 Years Later, Washington Post (2018) [video]
        • 1967 War: Six Days that Changed the Middle East, J. Bowen, BBC (2017) [article]
        • The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Brief, Simple History, Vox (2016) [video]
          *Wildcard Resource(s)*
          The Little Drummer Girl – A fictional novel about a double agent working for the Israelis, written by famed spy author John le Carré in 1983. 


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