US’s new ‘America First’ intelligence approach downplays Russia and ignores climate change

By David Hastings Dunn, Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham

The recently appointed US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and other top intelligence officials appeared before the Senate intelligence committee to discuss the US intelligence services’ annual threat assessment (ATA).

Most of the committee’s time and attention was focused on the revelation by the editor of the Atlantic magazine…

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