TV7 Israel Watchmen Talk - BG (Res.) Itai Brun - Air Force, Military Intelligence (part 1)

After Israel’s Air Force has revamped its Intelligence Division, following serious shortcomings in the 1973 war, some of the IDF’s best thinkers and planners came up through the ranks to senior Air Force Intelligence positions and then transitioned to broader capacities on the General Staff. Itai Brun moved up from Air Force Intelligence’s Chief of Research and Assessment to the same duty in the Directorate of Military Intelligence staff, reporting to the highest Cabinet and Defense authorities. Between the two jobs he revived a dormant IDF think tank whose primary mission was to prepare up-and-coming General Officers for operational and strategic responsibilities.

On Watchmen Talk Brigadier-General Brun, now in the Reserves, talks about the art and craft of Intelligence, the road from a raw report to a finished product, warning and surprise, the relationship between IDF Intelligence and various consumers - Chief of General Staff, Defense Minister, Prime Minister, Commanders - as well as with fellow organisations such as Mossad and SHABAK.

Brun, with theory based on practice and analysis, also distinguishes between various forms of problems, such as “mysteries” as distinct from “riddles” or mere “secrets”. Finally, he shares his view on the most painful of Intelligence failures in Israel’s history, the combined Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur 1973, and whether the political, military and intelligence echelons are now immune from another such surprise.

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