Intelligence Archives

New Zealand’s Intelligence Conundrum: Five Eyes or No Eyes?

June 14, 2025

Despite the uncertainties of the Trump administration, Five Eyes membership is of enduring value, writes Dr John Battersby, Senior Fellow in the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University. In the mid-2020s the […]

Were recent events in Afghanistan really an ‘intelligence failure’?

September 12, 2021

The Taliban’s rapid retaking of Afghanistan highlighted failures, but it was no intelligence failure, writes Dr John Battersby and Dr Rhys Ball of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies. Dr John Battersby is […]

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