Response to Gentry

<p dir="ltr">I was interested to read John Gentry’s claim in his article “Ideology in Costume: A Growing Threat to Intelligence Studies” (<i>International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence</i>, Vol. 37, No. 2) to have revealed a “citation cartel” of neo-Marxist “intellectual combat[ants]” who have infiltrated intelligence studies—and even more so to learn that I am one of these political agents.<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2025.2527107?src=#" target="_blank">Footnote¹</a> As of June 2025, Altmetric ranks the commentary piece as having received more online attention than any article in the history of this journal.<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2025.2527107?src=#" target="_blank">Footnote²</a> Given this attention, and because Gentry describes my own “ideological” work as lacking any scholarly “credib[ility],” I thought it was fair that I give a reply. [Opening paragraph]</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p>