Examines the deep historical and cultural origins of intelligence in several countries of critical importance today: India, China, the Arab world, and Russia. In this title, each chapter reveals insights into intelligence history and practices in regions that, until now, have eluded our understanding.
Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond
Examines why surprise attacks often succeed even though warnings in many cases had been available beforehand. This book offers a new understanding of cases such as Pearl Harbor, and provides comprehensive analysis of the intelligence picture just before the 9/11 attacks, challenging some of the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report.
This Historical Dictionary of Cold War Intelligence contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial operations spies, defectors, moles, double and triple agents, and the tradecraft they apply.
Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a "maverick," an "iconoclast," a man "who never lost an argument or kept a friend." He co-founded National Review, helped turn the word liberal into an insult, and became the chief theorist of conservative populism. Understanding Kendall helps us understand America.
Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional, Volume 3 combines the best articles from the first two volumes, the added new articles expand and explain further the meaning and dichotomy of a working professional in the intelligence community and the national security and civil liberties they are entrusted with safeguarding.
Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional, Volume 3 combines the best articles from the first two volumes, the added new articles expand and explain further the meaning and dichotomy of a working professional in the intelligence community and the national security and civil liberties they are entrusted with safeguarding.
Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest
A fresh perspective on statecraft in the cyber domain
The idea of “cyber war” has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for death and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the ......
Assessing Cyber Conflict as an Intelligence Contest
The idea of "cyber war" has played a dominant role in both academic and popular discourse concerning the nature of statecraft in the cyber domain. However, this lens of war and its expectations for death and destruction may distort rather than help clarify the nature of cyber competition and conflict. Are cyber activities actually more like an ......
