National Intelligence Council Chairman Calls for More Long-Term Intelligence Work
Russia's aggressive posture in its neighborhood is an "interesting
inflection point in global politics," much like the fall of the Soviet
Union in December of 1991 and al Qaeda's attack on the US on September
11, 2001, Gregory F. Treverton, chairman of the US National Intelligence
Council, told the Atlantic Council.
"The first time around when the Soviet Union fell we so quickly said, 'Well, that's over,'" Treverton said, adding that as a policy person he had believed at the time that the expansion of NATO following the end of the Cold War was a good thing, but "we probably were, in retrospect, pretty dismissive."
"The first time around when the Soviet Union fell we so quickly said, 'Well, that's over,'" Treverton said, adding that as a policy person he had believed at the time that the expansion of NATO following the end of the Cold War was a good thing, but "we probably were, in retrospect, pretty dismissive."
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