Bringing Intelligence About

Author : Joint Military Intelligence College
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781483970684
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Intelligence about written by Joint Military Intelligence College and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume helps identify how to produce good or better intelligence - intelligence that is of use to policymakers. The authors have - across a range of areas of interest -identified some of the practices that work best "to bring about" good intelligence. The focus is on analysis rather than operations and includes pieces from currently serving professionals in the armed forces, CIA, and NSA. Editor Dr. Russell G. Swenson directed the Center for Strategic Intelligence Research at the Joint Military Intelligence College when this book was published by the Joint Military Intelligence College.

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Total Pages : 158 pages
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Download or read book Bringing Intelligence About: Practitioners Reflect on Best Practices written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of studious self-reflection by currently serving intelligence professionals, as well as by those who are in a position, with recent experience and continuing contacts, to influence the development of succeeding generations of intelligence personnel. The title chosen for this book carries two meanings. The more straightforward interpretation of "Bringing Intelligence About," and the principal one, refers to the book's coverage of wide-ranging sources and methods employed to add value to national security-related information - to create "intelligence." A second meaning, not unrelated to the first, refers to the responsible agility expected of U.S. intelligence professionals, to think and act in such a way as to navigate information collection and interpretation duties with a fix on society's shifting but consensual interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. This volume helps us move down the long and difficult road of helping identify how to produce good or better intelligence - intelligence that is of use to policymakers and is better than other intelligence by being so used. The authors have across a range of areas of interest identified some of the practices that work best to produce or, more aptly, "to bring about" good intelligence. Finally, it is also important to understand that this book focuses on the issue of analysis.

Author : Russell G. Swenson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300078715
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Intelligence About: Practitioners Reflect on Best Practices written by Russell G. Swenson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume helps identify how to produce good or better intelligence - intelligence that is of use to policymakers. The authors have - across a range of areas of interest -identified some of the practices that work best "to bring about" good intelligence. The focus is on analysis rather than operations and includes pieces from currently serving professionals in the armed forces, CIA, and NSA. Editor Dr. Russell G. Swenson directed the Center for Strategic Intelligence Research at the Joint Military Intelligence College when this book was published by the Joint Military Intelligence College.

Author : Russell George Swenson
Publisher : Joint Military Intelligence College
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Intelligence about written by Russell George Swenson and published by Joint Military Intelligence College. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Russel Russel Swenson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511928298
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Intelligence About written by Russel Russel Swenson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title chosen for this book carries two meanings. The more straightforward interpretation of "Bringing Intelligence About," and the principal one, refers to the book's coverage of wide-ranging sources and methods employed to add value to national security-related information-to create "intelligence." A second meaning, not unrelated to the first, refers to the responsible agility expected of U.S. intelligence professionals, to think and act in such a way as to navigate information collection and interpretation duties with a fix on society's shifting but consensual interpretation of the U.S. Constitution

Author : Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556434472
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Human at Work written by Richard Strozzi-Heckler and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of interdisciplinary writings looks at the integration of mind, body, and spirit as it plays out in the workplace—whether in birth coaching, teaching parents, assisting the terminally ill, or working in the military, the classroom, or the corporation. These essays reveal what gets in the way of our humanity in the work world and how to rediscover that humanity. Written by leading professionals in business, education, medicine, technology, finance, psychology, and the military, this collection of essays explores how reconnecting with one’s humanity can result in true leadership in any field.

Author : Jennifer E. Sims
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589014770
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming U.S. Intelligence written by Jennifer E. Sims and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather than on its bureaucratic arrangements. In fact, while the recent restructuring, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, may solve some problems, it has also created new ones. The authors of this volume agree that transforming policies and practices will be the most effective way to tackle future challenges facing the nation's security. This volume's contributors, who have served in intelligence agencies, the Departments of State or Defense, and the staffs of congressional oversight committees, bring their experience as insiders to bear in thoughtful and thought-provoking essays that address what such an overhaul of the system will require. In the first section, contributors discuss twenty-first-century security challenges and how the intelligence community can successfully defend U.S. national interests. The second section focuses on new technologies and modified policies that can increase the effectiveness of intelligence gathering and analysis. Finally, contributors consider management procedures that ensure the implementation of enhanced capabilities in practice. Transforming U.S. Intelligence supports the mandate of the new director of national intelligence by offering both careful analysis of existing strengths and weaknesses in U.S. intelligence and specific recommendations on how to fix its problems without harming its strengths. These recommendations, based on intimate knowledge of the way U.S. intelligence actually works, include suggestions for the creative mixing of technologies with new missions to bring about the transformation of U.S. intelligence without incurring unnecessary harm or expense. The goal is the creation of an intelligence community that can rapidly respond to developments in international politics, such as the emergence of nimble terrorist networks while reconciling national security requirements with the rights and liberties of American citizens.

Author : Frank John Smist
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498411
Total Pages : 420 pages
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Download or read book Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community, 1947-1994 written by Frank John Smist and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Foreseeing conflict between the legislative and executive branches over the proper functions of government, the Founders of the United States built into the U.S. Constitution the checks and balances that Edwin S. Corwin called "an invitation to struggle." Smist argues that congressional intelligence-oversight committees--such as Senator Church's 1975-76 committee--can, by taking up this struggle, not only handle sensitive information responsibly but help shape rational foreign policy. When Congress is shut out of the intelligence process-as in President Carter's abortive Iran rescue mission and Reagan's Iran-Contra affair-the results can be catastrophic. Smist's detailed analysis of congressional oversight of U.S. intelligence from Pearl Harbor through Iran-Contra is based largely on his interviews with participants, including senators, representatives, and executive-branch officials. The analysis is informed by Smist's dialectical model of "institutional" (conservative, supportive) versus "investigative" (radical, questioning) oversight, which allows him to uncover the frequently obscured historical value of previous Senate and House investigative committees. For example, the Pike committee, 1975-76, even though its final report was suppressed by the House, was able to elicit then Secretary of State Kissinger's admission of presidential control over covert actions, thus shattering the doctrine of "plausible deniability." Because these committees continue to wrestle with the principles underlying government, their unfolding drama is meaningful for the student of constitutional history. This book provides new conceptual tools for the study of intelligence oversight and gives the direct testimony of key participants, making it important not only as political science but as history." --

Author : Mark Phythian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136765913
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Intelligence Cycle written by Mark Phythian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically analyses the concept of the intelligence cycle, highlighting the nature and extent of its limitations and proposing alternative ways of conceptualising the intelligence process. The concept of the intelligence cycle has been central to the study of intelligence. As Intelligence Studies has established itself as a distinctive branch of Political Science, it has generated its own foundational literature, within which the intelligence cycle has constituted a vital thread - one running through all social-science approaches to the study of intelligence and constituting a staple of professional training courses. However, there is a growing acceptance that the concept neither accurately reflects the intelligence process nor accommodates important elements of it, such as covert action, counter-intelligence and oversight. Bringing together key authors in the field, the book considers these questions across a number of contexts: in relation to intelligence as a general concept, military intelligence, corporate/private sector intelligence and policing and criminal intelligence. A number of the contributions also go beyond discussion of the limitations of the cycle concept to propose alternative conceptualisations of the intelligence process. What emerges is a plurality of approaches that seek to advance the debate and, as a consequence, Intelligence Studies itself. This book will be of great interest to students of intelligence studies, strategic studies, criminology and policing, security studies and IR in general, as well as to practitioners in the field.

Author : Roger Z. George
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589012399
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Intelligence written by Roger Z. George and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the individual and collective experience of recognized intelligence experts and scholars in the field, Analyzing Intelligence provides the first comprehensive assessment of the state of intelligence analysis since 9/11. Its in-depth and balanced evaluation of more than fifty years of U.S. analysis includes a critique of why it has under-performed at times. It provides insights regarding the enduring obstacles as well as new challenges of analysis in the post-9/11 world, and suggests innovative ideas for improved analytical methods, training, and structured approaches. The book's six sections present a coherent plan for improving analysis. Early chapters examine how intelligence analysis has evolved since its origins in the mid-20th century, focusing on traditions, culture, successes, and failures. The middle sections examine how analysis supports the most senior national security and military policymakers and strategists, and how analysts must deal with the perennial challenges of collection, politicization, analytical bias, knowledge building and denial and deception. The final sections of the book propose new ways to address enduring issues in warning analysis, methodology (or "analytical tradecraft") and emerging analytic issues like homeland defense. The book suggests new forms of analytic collaboration in a global intelligence environment, and imperatives for the development of a new profession of intelligence analysis. Analyzing Intelligence is written for the national security expert who needs to understand the role of intelligence and its strengths and weaknesses. Practicing and future analysts will also find that its attention to the enduring challenges provides useful lessons-learned to guide their own efforts. The innovations section will provoke senior intelligence managers to consider major changes in the way analysis is currently organized and conducted, and the way that analysts are trained and perform.