# Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt

https://mins.news/en/item/54290

- BBC News, 2026-09-11 05:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l68gmqq24o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Twenty-five years after 9/11, the attacks and the response to them continue to shape a generation of foreign, security and intelligence policy. The article examines the US intelligence failure to connect available information in time, reforms to intelligence-sharing and counter-terrorism structures, and the continuing risk of disastrous failures in assessment and strategy.

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