Failure of Counterespionage Operations Causes

Failure of Counterespionage Operations Causes
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COUNTERESPIONAGE ANALYSIS
Governments globally need to keep their affairs a secret, for their enemies might use them to attack them. To the government, information is a crucial aspect of its existence and operations. Daily, the government receives and sends critical information and, when leaked or misinterpreted, would cause havoc in the nation. To the government, gathering and sending this information is termed intelligence. The act of intelligence holds a crucial aspect where information is rigorously analyzed and processed when received to pass a well-thought judgment that will influence the type of action or reaction taken. In some cases, in various governments, individuals go against their nations or others like sent spies by the enemies gather information on the countries' security details and other critical areas and plan to terrorize the government. That act is espionage vary for different reasons, but generally, it is considered a crime. With the variations, espionage warrants other punishments: execution, deportation, or detainment upon arrest when carrying out the unconstitutional act. Espionage is a thing that has been in various governments globally, even in the past. These governments survived due to developing concrete counterespionage processes that helped neutralize the infiltration. Counterespionage which is the same as counterintelligence, are all activities designed and carried out to ensure that spying by the enemy is neutralized..[Hall, Megan. "Heroes of World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor." Children's Book and Media Review 40, no. 1 (2019): 29. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr/vol40/iss1/29/] [Ronczkowski, Michael R. Terrorism, and organized hate crime: intelligence gathering, analysis, and investigations. CRC Press, 2017. /books/mono/10.4324/9781315203133/terrorism-organized-hate-crime-michael-ronczkowski]
Pearl Harbor Attack
One of the most significant reasons for a failure in counterespionage is the failure to act. Failure to act comes about when intelligence that is well analyzed and processed is tabled, but those entrusted to work on it choose to ignore and assume its worthiness.. When the government receives information on any attempt that would risk national security, it is logical to assess and act according to the need immediately. Actions will be established after rigorous analysis and investigations and thus effectively neutralizing the foreign intelligence infiltrations. For example, one of the failed counterespionage activities was the Pearl Harbor attack. In 1947, date seven the December, the Japanese successfully struck the United States Pacific naval fleets at Pearl Harbor so hard. The attack was severe and catastrophic as two thousand four hundred and three US military personnel were lost and sixty-eight civilians.. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise Japanese military attack, and thus a large number of lives were lost and crucial war equipment destroyed.[Canaris, Wilhelm, Red Orchestra, and Otto John. "Counterintelligence failures." https://ipfs.fleek.co/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Counterintelligence_failures.html] [Hall, Megan. "Heroes of World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor." Children's Book and Media Review 40, no. 1 (2019): 29. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr/vol40/iss1/29/]
September 11 "Twin Towers"
The other reason for counterespionage failure is complacency. This is where the government is well notified of a possibility for an attack and does not act because they are not so sure when the enemy will make their move. This kind of thinking has led to catastrophic attacks being launched without government preparedness, thus resulting in too many deaths and mass destruction. The September 11, 2001 attack on US soil could have been avoided. The CIA had gathered intelligence on the activities of Osama Bin Laden's terrorist group; the Al-Qaida had sneaked its operations from 1998 in the US a thing they meant an attack might happen.
The Tet Offensive
The other reason that led to the counterespionage failure is the aspect of disregarding given information. This is where the players in the search for intelligence dwell on assertions and opinions that are mainly regarded favorably, thus limiting the government from taking action; an example, the Tet offensive in Vietnam. On January 31, 1968, the attack took place in Vietnam, where the North attacked the south when they had the Tet holiday. Vietnam was divided into two North and South Vietnam that had a rivalry based on being communist or capitalist.. The US intelligence and South Vietnam armies knew of the attack but did not act on the information that sounded warnings; thus, the North successfully launched a heavy attack.[Long, Ngo Vinh. "The Tet offensive and its aftermath." In The American War in Vietnam, pp. 23-46. Cornell University Press, 2018. /document/doi/10.7591/9781501719462-003/html]
The Iraq war
Another reason why counterespionage activities have failed is the failure by the entrusted agencies in security matters to effectively analyze and process the information they receive from different sources. Information is a critical aspect that triggers the proper judgment of the situation presented. In a case of active espionage, the law enforcement forces are required to dig deep and identify the reasons for the spying, what the spying will lead to, and then come up with a well-established decision on the action to be taken. In some cases, the law enforcement personnel, especially the CIA and military, get access to a piece of crucial information but fails to profoundly and effectively analyze it, making the nation vulnerable to the intended attacks.. One of the examples of the failure to analyze and process information well is the Iraq war. In March 2003, the US army was deployed to Iraq on information that they were still producing weapons of massive destruction that were termed illegal globally. In his capacities with advisors, President Bush failed to effectively analyze the data, process, and ascertain how solid it was before deploying...