U.S. government institutions tasked with strategic communications have lacked the leadership and resources necessary to do their job and have operated with virtually no inter agency coordination.
September 11, 2001, may have been a wake-up call to reform America's outdated intelligence bureaucracies and fight a global war on terrorism, but in some corners of the government, the war of ideas has been a lesser priority. While overseas opinion polls show mostly negative views of the United States, the communications machinery at the Department of State remains in disarray, interagency coordination remains minimal, and America's foreign communications effort lacks focus.
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