Professor David Gioe is Visiting Professor of Intelligence and International Security in the Department of War Studies. He joined the department from 2021 to 2025 as a British Academy Global Professor. Before that he was a tenured Associate Professor of History at the US Military Academy at West Point. David is also Director of Studies for the Cambridge Security Initiative and co-convener of its International Security and Intelligence program.

Professor Gioe is an internationally recognised academic scholar of intelligence and a veteran professional practitioner of the craft. His quarter century of public service in intelligence and national security spanned the FBI, CIA, DIA, and the US Navy. He is experienced in civilian, military, corporate and law enforcement intelligence with expertise in intelligence analysis, human intelligence operations, and covert action. He holds a BA from Wheaton College, an MA from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and his scholarship and analysis has appeared in numerous outlets.

Research Interests

• Intelligence in international affairs
• Anglo-American intelligence liaison
• History of Anglo-American Intelligence and security services
• Information operations in historical perspective
• Human intelligence, counterintelligence, and Covert action

Selected Publications

Books

• with Margaret W. Smith, eds., Great Power Cyber Competition: Competing and Winning in the Information Environment. Routledge Advances in Defence Studies, (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2024)
• with Huw Dylan and Michael S. Goodman, The CIA and the Pursuit of American Security (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
• with Len Scott & Christopher Andrew, An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Fifty-Year Retrospective Assessment. Studies in Intelligence Series, (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2014).

Book Chapters

• with Thomas Maguire, “Anglo-American Clandestine Cooperation: The Past, Present, and Future of the Special Intelligence Relationship(s),” in William D. James and Greg Kennedy, eds., Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations: How the Alliance Weathers Crises (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2026), pp. 87–116.
• “Handling HERO: Joint CIA-SIS Tradecraft in the Case of Oleg Penkovsky”, in Gioe, Scott, Andrew, eds., An International History of the Cuban Missile Crisis, (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2014).
• “The More Things Change: Human Intelligence in the Cyber Age”, in Goodman, Dover and Dylan, eds., Palgrave Handbook of Intelligence and Security, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Published Articles

• "Disinformation Will Continue to Roil Western Society and the 2020 Elections", The Cambridge Security Initiative (online), 20 August 2020.
• and Richard Lovering & Tyler Pachesny, "The Soviet Legacy of Russian Active Measures: New Vodka from Old Stills?", International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 33 no. 3, pp. 514-539.
• and Daniel Dombrowlski and Alicia Wanless, "How Threat Actors are Manipulating the British Information Environment," The RUSI Journal, 165 no. 3, pp. 22-38.
• and Joseph M. Hartfield and Mark Stout, "Can United States Intelligence Community Analysts Telework"? Intelligence and National Security 25 May 2020
• and Michael S. Goodman and Tim Stevens, “Intelligence in the Cyber Era: Evolution or Revolution?” Political Science Quarterly 35, no. 1 (Summer 2020), pp. 191-224.
• "The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy," Lawfare Blog, 21 January 2020.
• and Alicia Wanless and Michael S. Goodman, “Rebalancing Cybersecurity Imperatives: Patching the Social Layer”, The Journal of Cyber Policy, 4:1, pp. 117-137.
• “Make America Strategic Again”, The National Interest, May/June 2019

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