In From The Cold
New Zealand Security Matters is hosted by Dr Rhys Ball, a former intelligence officer who is now one of New Zealand’s leading commentators on intelligence and national security; and Martin Schwarz, a former Assistant Director in the New Zealand Intelligence Community.
It will challenge and inform New Zealand’s national security and intelligence matters for policy makers, academics, think tanks, politicians, intelligence professionals, aspiring intelligence professionals and amateur intelligencers alike.
The hosts will draw on their nearly 50 years experience in national security to run a lively debate and inject fresh ideas.
Follow New Zealand Security Matters on Twitter and send in your questions and comments:
Disclaimer: the views expressed by the hosts in this podcast are their personal views only. They do not represent the views of their past or present employers.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In From The Cold
New Zealand Security Matters is hosted by Dr Rhys Ball, a former intelligence officer who is now one of New Zealand’s leading commentators on intelligence and national security; and Martin Schwarz, a former Assistant Director in the New Zealand Intelligence Community.
It will challenge and inform New Zealand’s national security and intelligence matters for policy makers, academics, think tanks, politicians, intelligence professionals, aspiring intelligence professionals and amateur intelligencers alike.
The hosts will draw on their nearly 50 years experience in national security to run a lively debate and inject fresh ideas.
Follow New Zealand Security Matters on Twitter and send in your questions and comments:
Disclaimer: the views expressed by the hosts in this podcast are their personal views only. They do not represent the views of their past or present employers.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this first episode Rhys and Martin introduce themselves and explain why their backgrounds support that they’re well placed to talk about intelligence and security in New Zealand.
They start talking about the value of intelligence to support decision-making and the nexus between intelligence agencies and policy-makers.
Rhys challenges Martin on the difference between intelligence and evidence highlighting how difficult some of these conversations can be…we’ll come back to that in a future episode!
An information sheet on intelligence published by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is referenced. The link is here: https://dpmc.govt.nz/our-programmes/national-security-and-intelligence/intelligence-and-security-act-2017/what-is-intelligence
Send your questions to nzsecmatters@gmail.com or via Twitter @nzsecmatters
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.