Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges

Book Overview

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the need for information-gathering and the values of democratic societies. It also includes succinct discussions of complex issues facing the Intelligence Community, such as the challenges of technical and clandestine collection, the proliferation of open sources, the problems of deception and denial operations, and the interaction between the Intelligence Community and the military. Several timely chapters examine the role of the intelligence analyst in support of the national security policymaker. Rounding out the volume are appendices on the legislative underpinnings of our national intelligence apparatus.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742540391
• ISBN13: 9780742540392
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Marching to the Future

The intelligence organizations of the United States (I believe some 17 organizations, but since there probably some agencies that are still secret, I can't be sure.) have had their successes and failures. Their failures are well exposed, i.e. predicting the attack on the World Trade Center, their successes only come to the public's attention years, or even decades later. This book is an investigation into the intelligence agencies, but heavily concentrated on the CIA. It was originally intended as a text for use at senior military colleges and certain civilian government training programs. The book was written by a series of authors that came out of or had longstanding relationships of some kind to the American intelligence organizations, mostly CIA but including others. The range of their discussion is great, from history to the future, the legal basis for intelligence operations, relationship with the military and more.