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Podcast: Silicon Curtain
Episode: 508. David Gioe, Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld: Putin’s (mis)Management of Russian Intelligence Assessments
Description: This is a conversation with the three esteemed authors of a paper
entitled “The autocrat’s intelligence paradox: Vladimir Putin’s
(mis)management of Russian strategic assessment in the Ukraine War. Huw
Dylan, David V. Gioe and Elena Grossfeld
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This article argues that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
is illustrative of this broader, though understudied, pattern of
autocratic mismanagement of strategic intelligence. The invasion was
both spurred and accompanied by a catastrophic intelligence failure, the
responsibility for which rests with Vladimir Putin, the arbiter of a
system with limited capacity to offer dispassionate strategic
assessments. His failure...