by Giovanni Nacci

Until recently, the leitmotif of the political debates about "security" seemed to be focused on the theory - bipartisan - that for a more effective contrast to crime and terrorism troubling the today society would have been necessary "to do more intelligence". Roughly speaking, this thesis seems to be really difficult to refute, but just because it is presented in a so general way, becomes a useless theorization. Hardly ever in fact, after the proclamation, the issue was seriously studied in depth with an organized method and no clear, precise and flexible proposals were put forward. Doing so, there's the danger that we give too much importance to images - not too much truthful - that the current perception of intelligence tends to evoke among people. 

 (this article was published by "Intelligence e Storia Top Secret " n° 8/2008)