Essentials of Strategic Intelligence
Published on 9. December 2014
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-1-4408-3227-7 (ISBN)
Description
A highly valuable resource for students of intelligence studies, strategy and security, and foreign policy, this volume provides readers with an accessible and comprehensive exploration of U.S. espionage activities that addresses both the practical and ethical implications that attend the art and science of spying.
Essentials of Strategic Intelligence investigates a subject unknown to or misunderstood by most American citizens: how U.S. foreign and security policy is derived from the information collection operations and data analysis by the sixteen major U.S. intelligence agencies. The essays in this work draw back the curtain on the hidden side of America's government, explaining the roles of various intelligence missions, justifying the existence of U.S. intelligence agencies, and addressing the complex moral questions that arise in the conduct of secret operations.
After an introductory overview, the book presents accessibly written essays on the key topics: intelligence collection-and-analysis, counterintelligence, covert action, and intelligence accountability. Readers will understand how intelligence directly informs policymakers and why democracies need secret agencies; learn how the CIA has become deeply involved in the war-like assassination operations that target suspected foreign terrorists, even some individuals who are American citizens; and appreciate how the existence of-and our reliance on-these intelligence agencies poses challenges for democratic governance.
Essentials of Strategic Intelligence investigates a subject unknown to or misunderstood by most American citizens: how U.S. foreign and security policy is derived from the information collection operations and data analysis by the sixteen major U.S. intelligence agencies. The essays in this work draw back the curtain on the hidden side of America's government, explaining the roles of various intelligence missions, justifying the existence of U.S. intelligence agencies, and addressing the complex moral questions that arise in the conduct of secret operations.
After an introductory overview, the book presents accessibly written essays on the key topics: intelligence collection-and-analysis, counterintelligence, covert action, and intelligence accountability. Readers will understand how intelligence directly informs policymakers and why democracies need secret agencies; learn how the CIA has become deeply involved in the war-like assassination operations that target suspected foreign terrorists, even some individuals who are American citizens; and appreciate how the existence of-and our reliance on-these intelligence agencies poses challenges for democratic governance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
939 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-3227-7 (9781440832277)
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Loch K. Johnson
Essentials of Strategic Intelligence
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Praeger Publishers Inc
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Loch K. Johnson
Essentials of Strategic Intelligence
E-Book
12/2014
1st Edition
Praeger Publishers Inc
€44.99
Available for download
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Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Content
Preface
Part I: Understanding the Hidden Side of Government
Chapter One An Introduction to the Intelligence Studies Literature
Loch K. Johnson
Chapter Two Cloaks, Daggers, and Ivory Towers: Why Political Science Professors Don't Study U.S. Intelligence
Amy B. Zegart
Chapter Three Searching Where the Light Shines? An American View of Methods for the Study of OSINT and the Other Intelligence "Ints"
Michael Warner
Part II: The Intelligence Cycle
Chapter Four What's Wrong with the Intelligence Cycle?
Arthur S. Hulnick
Chapter Five The Importance and Future of Espionage and Intelligence Liaison
Frederick P. Hitz
Chapter Six Intelligence Analysts and Policymakers: Benefits and Dangers of Tensions in the Relationship
Jack Davis
Chapter Seven The Intelligence-Policy Nexus
James J. Wirtz
Chapter Eight 9/11 and Iraqi WMD: Intelligence Failures?
Peter Gill
Part III. Covert Action
Chapter Nine Covert Action: Forward to the Past?
Gregory F. Treverton179
Chapter Ten Political Action as a Tool of Presidential Statecraft
William J. Daugherty
Chapter Eleven Covert Action and the Pentagon
Jennifer D. Kibbe
Chapter Twelve From Cold War to Long War to Gray War: Covert Action in U.S. Legal Context
James E. Baker
Chapter Thirteen Covert Action and Diplomacy
John D. Stempel
Part IV. Counterintelligence
Chapter Fourteen Definitions and Theories of Counterintelligence
Stan A. Taylor
Chapter Fifteen The Successes and Failures of FBI Counterintelligence
Athan Theoharis
Chapter Sixteen The Intelligence War against Global Terrorism
Richard L. Russell
Chapter Seventeen Counterterrorism, Fusion Centers, and the Importance of All-Source Intelligence
Jennifer Sims
Part V. Intelligence and Accountability
Chapter Eighteen Congressional Oversight of the CIA in the Early Cold War, 1947-1963
David M. Barrett
Chapter Nineteen Washington Politics, Homeland Security, and the Struggle against Global Terrorism
Glenn Hastedt
Chapter Twenty Prometheus Embattled: A Post-9/11 Report Card on the National Security Agency
Matthew M. Aid
Chapter Twenty-One The British Experience with Intelligence Accountability
Mark Phythian
Appendix
Glossary
About the Editor and Contributors
Index
Part I: Understanding the Hidden Side of Government
Chapter One An Introduction to the Intelligence Studies Literature
Loch K. Johnson
Chapter Two Cloaks, Daggers, and Ivory Towers: Why Political Science Professors Don't Study U.S. Intelligence
Amy B. Zegart
Chapter Three Searching Where the Light Shines? An American View of Methods for the Study of OSINT and the Other Intelligence "Ints"
Michael Warner
Part II: The Intelligence Cycle
Chapter Four What's Wrong with the Intelligence Cycle?
Arthur S. Hulnick
Chapter Five The Importance and Future of Espionage and Intelligence Liaison
Frederick P. Hitz
Chapter Six Intelligence Analysts and Policymakers: Benefits and Dangers of Tensions in the Relationship
Jack Davis
Chapter Seven The Intelligence-Policy Nexus
James J. Wirtz
Chapter Eight 9/11 and Iraqi WMD: Intelligence Failures?
Peter Gill
Part III. Covert Action
Chapter Nine Covert Action: Forward to the Past?
Gregory F. Treverton179
Chapter Ten Political Action as a Tool of Presidential Statecraft
William J. Daugherty
Chapter Eleven Covert Action and the Pentagon
Jennifer D. Kibbe
Chapter Twelve From Cold War to Long War to Gray War: Covert Action in U.S. Legal Context
James E. Baker
Chapter Thirteen Covert Action and Diplomacy
John D. Stempel
Part IV. Counterintelligence
Chapter Fourteen Definitions and Theories of Counterintelligence
Stan A. Taylor
Chapter Fifteen The Successes and Failures of FBI Counterintelligence
Athan Theoharis
Chapter Sixteen The Intelligence War against Global Terrorism
Richard L. Russell
Chapter Seventeen Counterterrorism, Fusion Centers, and the Importance of All-Source Intelligence
Jennifer Sims
Part V. Intelligence and Accountability
Chapter Eighteen Congressional Oversight of the CIA in the Early Cold War, 1947-1963
David M. Barrett
Chapter Nineteen Washington Politics, Homeland Security, and the Struggle against Global Terrorism
Glenn Hastedt
Chapter Twenty Prometheus Embattled: A Post-9/11 Report Card on the National Security Agency
Matthew M. Aid
Chapter Twenty-One The British Experience with Intelligence Accountability
Mark Phythian
Appendix
Glossary
About the Editor and Contributors
Index