Walter Laqueur

The Uses and Limits of Intelligence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a major survey and assessment of U.S. intelligence activities over the last forty-five years. It offers a systematic and authoritative evaluation of American intelligence-gathering machinery: how it has been used, misused, and on occasion, ignored

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781560005940
• ISBN-10: 1560005947
• Artikelnr.: 21479258

Autorenporträt

Walter Laqueur

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Anatomy of Intelligence
1: The Production of Intelligence
2: Economic and Scientific Intelligence
2: A History of Intelligence Performance
3: Intelligence and Its Customers
4: Early Experiences and Later-Day Trials
5: The Missile Gap Controversy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
6: Vietnam and the Case of the Missing Missiles
3: Intelligence Abroad
7: Secret Services in Open Societies
8: The Antagonists: KGB and GRU
4: Theories of Intelligence
9: The Causes of Failure
10: Craft or Science?
5: Conclusion
11: The Future of Intelligence