This is the second of a two-part podcast set on the concept, and uses, of Strategic Intelligence. In this episode, Marc and Tom discuss how intelligence functions within democratic societies in an effort to look at how a theory of…

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Episode Five: The Operation of Intelligence in a Democracy

This is the first of a two-part podcast set on the concept, and uses, of Strategic Intelligence. In this episode, Marc and Tom lay out the actual, social function of Strategic Intelligence and look at its place in the long…

Episode Four: Strategic Surprise, Intelligence and Terrorism: Developing a Tolerance for Disaster

In this podcast, Marc and Tom take a hard look at the concept, and reality, of ‘terrorism’. We start with a look at when terrorism as a tactic, makes strategic sense in historical and techno-social contexts. Moving into the operational…

Episode Three: Fear and (In)Security Theatre

In this podcast, Marc and Tom take a look at  a rarely discussed, structural vulnerability in advanced societies:  the payments and settlements system. We first put this system in the historical context of economic warfare, then look at some potential…

Episode Two: The War in your Wallet: The Real Invisible Hand

In this inaugural episode of Broken Mirrors, Marc and Tom talk about where they want to see the series going and the long history of Canada-U.S. relations in intelligence and military matters. In the second segment, they are joined by…

Episode One: My Brother’s Keeper?

Provides a unique set of views in the larger foreign policy, intelligence and security milieu

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