Intelligence Studies Review

Blog of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS)

  • How Do We Define Intelligence Failure?: Hamas October 2023 Attack on Israel

    On October 7, Hamas launched a significant and well-coordinated attack on Israel, surprising its defenses. Considered the ‘most serious attack in a generation’, the offensive exposed multiple intelligence failures on the Israeli side, revealing both Hamas’ effective planning and considerable weaknesses in Israeli security structures.

  • Call for Papers: “Knock in the Night” —Intelligence, Security and Special Services in Authoritarian States 

    Date: 26-27 June 2024   Location: Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK  Deadline for Proposals: 8 January 2024  The Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS) is calling for papers about the activities, role and functioning of intelligence and security organisations in autocratic regimes. We are also interested in the causes, conditions and difficulties that national…

  • Knowledge, Activity and Organisation. 

    Welcome to Intelligence Studies Review, the official blog of the Brunel University Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (BCISS).  BCISS was the first officially established research centre in intelligence studies, founded twenty years ago this coming November.  Our four-fold mandate was to be a centre of excellence in the study of intelligence from a policy…