{"product_id":"covert-colour-line","title":"Covert Colour Line","description":"\u003cp\u003eRepeated intelligence failures in Iraq, Libya and across the Middle East and North Africa have left many critics searching for a smoking gun. Amidst questions of who misread - or manipulated - the intel, a fundamental truth goes unaddressed: western intelligence is not designed to understand the world. In fact, it cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Covert Colour Line\u003c\/em\u003e, Oliver Kearns shows how the catastrophic mistakes made by British and US intelligence services since 9\/11 are underpinned by orientalist worldviews and racist assumptions forged in the crucible of Cold War-era colonial retreat. Understanding this historical context is vital to explaining why anglophone state intelligence is unable to grasp the motives and international solidarities of 'adversaries'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a new way of seeing how intelligence contributes to world inequalities, and drawing on a wealth of recently declassified materials, Kearns argues that intelligence agencies’ imagination of 'non-Western' states and geopolitics fundamentally shaped British intelligence assessments which would underpin the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225314677080,"sku":"9780745347301","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780745347301_888118e2-2652-4a86-88a1-d4f056985148.jpg?v=1778814949","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/covert-colour-line","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}