Intelligence in the Cold War: What Difference Did It Make?

Herausgeber: Herman, Michael; Hughes, Gwilym

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tackles the questions that have emerged from the legacy of the Cold War, such as intelligence as warning, threat assessment, assessing military balances, Third World activities, and providing reassurance. This book was published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780415659659
• ISBN-10: 0415659655
• Artikelnr.: 36124734

Autorenporträt

Michael Herman is a former intelligence practitioner. His publications since his retirement in 1987 have included Intelligence Power in Peace and War published in 1996 and regularly reprinted. His principal academic association has been with Nuffield College, where he is still active as the Founder Director of the Oxford Intelligence Group. He is an Honorary D.Litt of Nottingham University. Gwilym Hughes is Director of the Oxford Intelligence Group and a Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford. Formerly a member of the British Defence Staffs in Paris and Canberra, he is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham and the Australian Joint Services Staff College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Intelligence in the Cold War 2. Intelligence and the Risk
of Nuclear War: Able Archer-83 Revisited 3. Certainties, Doubts, and
Imponderables: Levels of Analysis In the Military Balance 4. Intelligence
as Threats and Reassurance 5. Estimating Soviet Power: the creation of
Britain's Defence Intelligence Staff 1960-65 6. Chekists Look Back on the
Cold War: the polemical literature 7. KGB Human Intelligence Operations in
Israel 1948-1973 8. What Difference Did It Make?