Broken Mirrors

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Our flagship podcast, Broken Mirrors aims to provide a unique set of views in the larger foreign policy, intelligence and security milieu encompassing grand strategic, operational, and current event discussion and commentary. Each month, Marc Tyrrell and Tom Quiggin embark on journey around major is…

Broken Mirrors


    • Mar 29, 2014 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 58m AVG DURATION
    • 5 EPISODES


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    Episode Five: The Operation of Intelligence in a Democracy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2014 100:39


    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…

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2013 55:09


    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 Three: Fear and (In)Security Theatre

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2013 48:58


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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2013 49:46


    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 One: My Brother’s Keeper?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2013 39:28


    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…

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