Essentials of Strategic Intelligence (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Johnson, Loch K.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440832284
• Artikelnr.: 68184002

Autorenporträt

Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Inhaltsangabe

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