CIA Dir. William Burns, wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Post, based on his Ditchley Lecture, offering a strategic view of this "plastic moment" in international relations.

Challenges: (1) Rising China and declining Russia, (2) global problems such as pandemics and the climate crisis, and (3) technological revolutions which hurt traditional human espionage but assist open-source intelligence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/07/cia-director-william-burns-ditchley-speech-adaptation/