The UK NCF embodies certain distinctive characteristics of the British system, including flexibility regarding institutional roles in general and the role of intelligence agencies in particular. Much the same can be said, moreover, for another recent British organizational innovation: creation of the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC).
The American experience throughout this same period has been analogous in many respects—including the creation of new organizations with defensive and offensive missions—yet it is by no means identical. As we shall see, institutional formalism is far more conspicuous in the American system, and so too are anxieties about the roles of intelligence agencies. Whether these are bugs or features is, perhaps, in the eye of the beholder. The comparison between the U.K. and U.S. models, at any rate, is instructive.
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The American experience throughout this same period has been analogous in many respects—including the creation of new organizations with defensive and offensive missions—yet it is by no means identical. As we shall see, institutional formalism is far more conspicuous in the American system, and so too are anxieties about the roles of intelligence agencies. Whether these are bugs or features is, perhaps, in the eye of the beholder. The comparison between the U.K. and U.S. models, at any rate, is instructive.
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