# Spies, strategy and missed opportunities: The lessons of 9/11 are still being absorbed

https://mins.news/en/item/54075

- BBC Chinese, 2026-09-11 05:31 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c99dg718vg2o/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Twenty-five years on, the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent war on terror have reshaped foreign, security and intelligence policy. The article calls the attacks a major intelligence failure: the CIA and FBI failed to share and properly assess information they held. Reforms followed, but strategic misjudgment, human-rights controversies and neglect of state threats remain lessons.

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