- Date: 10/18/2011
- Format: Print Paperback
- Price: $72.00
- ISBN: 978-1-60871-675-3
- Pages: 377
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Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, 5th Edition
Mark M. Lowenthal, Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC
Intelligence veteran Mark M. Lowenthal details how the intelligence community’s history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. With straightforward and friendly prose, the book demystifies a complex process. The fifth edition highlights crucial developments and new challenges in the intelligence community, including: - changes in the overall management of U.S. intelligence and the fourth Director of National Intelligence in five years;
- Obama administration strategies and policies;
- new technologies and new media;
- key events such as the killing of Bin Laden and Wikileaks;
- updates on issues in Russia, North Korea, China, and the Middle East;
- the ability to handle the shift in threats from large-scale attacks to smaller, individual attempts; and
- expanded coverage of foreign intelligence services, including Australia, Canada, Germany, India, New Zealand, as well as intelligence in democratic versus authoritarian regimes.
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New to this Edition The fifth edition highlights crucial developments and new challenges in the intelligence community, including: - changes in the management of U.S. intelligence and the fourth DNI in five years;
- Obama administration policies;
- developments in collection and analysis;
- the killing of bin Laden, Wikileaks, and updates on Russia, North Korea, China, and the Middle East;
- the ability to handle the shift from large-scale attacks to smaller, individual attempts;
- expanded coverage of foreign intelligence services and new coverage of intelligence in authoritarian regimes.
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Table of Contents
1. What Is "Intelligence"?
2. The Development of U.S. Intelligence 3. The U.S. Intelligence Community 4. The Intelligence Process—A Macro Look: Who Does What For Whom? 5. Collection and the Collection Disciplines 6. Analysis 7. Counterintelligence 8. Covert Action 9. The Role of the Policy Maker 10. Oversight and Accountability 11. The Intelligence Agenda: Nation States 12. The Intelligence Agenda: Transnational Issue 13. Ethical and Moral Issues in Intelligence 14. Intelligence Reform 15. Foreign Intelligence Services
Testimonials " Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy remains the best available introduction to the U.S. intelligence community and what it does. Clearly written, comprehensive, and critical when it should be, it offers students and interested citizens a holistic understanding of how specialized components and discrete missions contribute to a multifaceted enterprise designed to ensure that U.S. officials obtain the information and insights they need to make decisions affecting the security of our nation." - Thomas Fingar, Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University and former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis"Mark Lowenthal's Intelligence is the classic textbook on the subject. But it is more than that and, especially in the new edition, its insight, clarity, and wisdom makes it invaluable to any student, scholar, or member of the concerned public." - Robert Jervis, Columbia University"This latest, fifth edition of Mark Lowenthal's classic primer on intelligence sets the gold standard in books designed to introduce readers to the fascinating study of American espionage. Every dimension of this topic--how the United States gathers and analyzes global information, how we guard our secrets (counterintelligence), and how we sometimes use secret operations to alter the course of history (covert action)--is laid out in clear prose and with vivid examples. He also provides valuable insights into the politics of intelligence in Washington, DC; he examines the question of how to keep secret agencies accountable; and he offers contrasts between the American approach to espionage and the approaches adopted by several other countries, both democratic and authoritarian. Earlier in his career, Lowenthal was a successful intelligence officer; as he again reveals with this new edition, he is also a superb teacher of the subject." - Loch K. Johnson, University of Georgia"This is the fifth edition of Mark Lowenthal's treatise (modestly described by him as an 'introductory text'--it is that but it is much more) on national security intelligence. It is lucid, comprehensive, critical where it needs to be, up to date almost to the minute, and in short an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with the subject of intelligence. It makes a bureaucratically, historically, and analytically complex subject intelligible. I know of no comparable work on intelligence." - Richard A. Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; author of Uncertain Shield"Mark Lowenthal's From Secrets to Policy continues to be the single best introductory text on U.S. intelligence. Accessible, accurate, and laced with Lowenthal's signature wit and humor, this text demystifies as it delivers authoritative, insider knowledge." - Jennifer E. Sims, Georgetown University
Bio(s)
Mark M. Lowenthal, Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC
Mark M. Lowenthal has thirty-six years of experience as an intelligence official in the executive and legislative branches of government and in the private sector. He has served in the Congressional Research Service, the State Department, the House Intelligence Committee as staff director and the CIA, where he served as the assistant director of central intelligence for analysis and production, and also as vice chairman for evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. He is now the President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy. Dr. Lowenthal received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University; he was an adjunct at Columbia University from 1993-2007.
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