Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret World
by Loch K. Johnson
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While several fine texts on intelligence have been published over the past decade, there is no complementary set of volumes that addresses the subject in a comprehensive manner for the general reader. This major set explains how the sixteen major U.S. intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, the problems they face in providing further insight into this raw information through the techniques of analysis, and the difficulties that accompany the show more dissemination of intelligence to policymakers in a timely manner. Further, in a democracy it is important to have accountability over secret agencies and to consider some ethical benchmarks in carrying out clandestine operations. In addition to intelligence collection and analysis and the subject of intelligence accountability, this set addresses the challenges of counterintelligence and counterterrorism, as well covert action. Further, it provides comparisons regarding the various approaches to intelligence adopted by other nations around the world. Its five volumes underscore the history, the politics, and the policies needed for a solid comprehension of how the U.S. intelligence community functions in the modern age of globalization, characterized by a rapid flow of information across national boundaries. show lessTags
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Loch K. Johnson is the Regents Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, as well as a Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor.
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- Genres
- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 327.12 — Society, government, & culture Political science International Relations: Spies Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations Espionage and subversion
- LCC
- UB250 .S6385 — Military Science Military administration Military administration Intelligence
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 12
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