The world changed, countries changed, global geopolitics changed, the Cold War ended.
Orders have been disappointing while needs have changed (no cold war ), as have rival technologies.
"It's consistent to say that the resources and times and effort that it takes to run successful operations inside of Russia has not changed since Cold War times," Hall said.
The Russian foreign minister issued a blistering attack on the US, the west and Nato on Saturday, accusing them of being unable to change their cold war "genetic code" and saying the US must abandon its claims to "eternal uniqueness".
The tools have changed, the claimed motivations have changed - from cold war to war on terror - but the practice remains the same; governments seeking to discover more and more about their citizens.
That changed during the cold war.
But things changed after the Cold War.
"The size of the intelligence community hasn't changed since the cold war ended," he said.
Something daft about the threat having changed since the Cold War ended a quarter century ago, perhaps.
The United States' presence in Uzbekistan was a remarkable sign of how the world has changed since the cold war.
