Intelligence And Strategic Culture

Author : Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317967046
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligence and Strategic Culture written by Isabelle Duyvesteyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable information on potential security threats is not just the result of diligent intelligence work but also a product of context and culture. The volume explores the nexus between the intelligence process and strategic culture. How can and does the strategic outlook of the United States and the United Kingdom in particular, influence the intelligence gathering, assessment and dissemination process? This book contains an assessment of how political agendas and ideological outlook have significant influence on both the content and process of intelligence. It looks in particular at the premise of hearts and minds policies, culture and intelligence gathering in counterinsurgency operations; at case studies from imperial Malaya and Iran in the 1950s and at instances of intelligence failure, e.g. the case of Iraq in 2003. How was intelligence, or the lack thereof, a product of political culture and how did it play a role in the political praxis? The book shows that political agendas and the ideological outlook have a significant influence upon both the content and process of intelligence. This book was originally published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.

Author : Gino LaPaglia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498588328
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence written by Gino LaPaglia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Intelligence is a form of meaning that promises the possibility of strategic advantage, dignity, the achievement of objective, and the fulfillment of potential in hostile environments. In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence Gino LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of reason—arising in human experience, encoded as value, and born by culture as a strategic resource—has been encoded as values that have been memorialized in culturally authoritative sources in various Eurasian cultures for thousands of years. These sources have validated a strategic orientation in the world, legitimized the strategist as a heroic identity, and transmitted a coherent world view that enables the practitioner of strategy to overcome asymmetric threat. By excavating the provenance of strategic thought expressed in the cultural identity of the strategist in the most culturally authoritative mythological, literary, philosophical and religious sources, and excavating the underlying strategic values expressed in cultural products, LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of human rationality is one of the most basic structural dynamics of human meaning, and that the transmission of this strategic way of being and acting in the world offers hope for life’s underdogs.

Author : K. Kartchner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230618308
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction written by K. Kartchner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes strategic culture and its value as a methodological approach to the study of International Relations. In particular, the book uses strategic culture to illuminate a number of case studies on countries that have made decisions regarding the acquisition, proliferation or use of weapons of mass destruction.

Author : Shrikant Paranjpe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000052478
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India’s Strategic Culture written by Shrikant Paranjpe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of India’s strategic culture in the era of globalization. It examines dominant themes that have governed India’s foreign and security policy and events which have shaped India’s role in global politics. The author Examines the traditional and new approaches to diplomacy and the state’s response to internal and external conflicts; Delineates policy pillars which are required to protect the state’s strategic interests and forge new relationships in the current geopolitical climate; Compares the domestic and international security policies followed during the tenures of Narsimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh; and Analyzes how the Narendra Modi era has brought on changes in India’s security strategy and the use of soft power and diplomacy. With extensive additions, drawing on recent developments, this edition of the book will be a key text for scholars, teachers and students of defence and strategic studies, international relations, history, political science and South Asian studies.

Author : Jeannie L. Johnson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626165572
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture written by Jeannie L. Johnson and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences. Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the Marine Corps’s long experience with counterinsurgency warfare. Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of battlefield trial and error--but also a story of cultural collisions. The book begins with a fascinating and penetrating look inside the culture of the Marine Corps through research in primary sources, including Marine oral histories, and interviews with Marines. Johnson explores what makes this branch of the military distinct: their identity, norms, values, and perceptual lens. She then traces the history of the Marines’ counterinsurgency experience from the expeditionary missions of the early twentieth century, through the Vietnam War, and finally to the Iraq War. Her findings break new ground in strategic culture by introducing a methodology that was pioneered in the intelligence community to forecast behavior. Johnson shows that even a service as self-aware and dedicated to innovation as the Marine Corps is constrained in the lessons-learned process by its own internal predispositions, by the wider US military culture, and by national preferences. Her findings challenge the conclusions of previous counterinsurgency scholarship that ignores culture. This highly readable book reminds us of Sun Tzu’s wisdom that to be successful in war, it is important to know thyself as well as the enemy. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the Marines Corps, counterinsurgency warfare, military innovation, or strategic culture.

Author : Jeannie L. Johnson
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction written by Jeannie L. Johnson and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in reviving strategic culture as a field of study results from the inadequacy of traditional analytical approaches and calls to develop a new framework to guide policymaking in the post-9/11 security environment. The book considers 10 case studies of WMD decision-making, profiling culture in terms of geography, shared narratives, group relationships, threat perception, ideology, religion, economics, leadership style, and more. Strategic culture can help us more accurately evaluate intelligence regarding dangers emanating from other cultures and improve our strategic communications. A strategic cultural perspective makes us appreciate the requirements for promoting U.S. global responsibilities in a multi-cultural context, negotiate across cultures more effectively, and forecast the implications of cultural change for strategic planning purposes.

Author : Kerry M. Kartchner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000956350
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture written by Kerry M. Kartchner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars, consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture, analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources of strategic culture, and modalities of change in strategic culture. The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational, regional, supra-national, national, non-state actor, and organizational levels. The volume is divided into five thematic parts, which will appeal to both students who are new to the subject and scholars who wish to incorporate strategic culture into their toolbox of analytical techniques. Part I assesses the evolving theoretical strengths and weaknesses of the field. Part II lays out elements of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field, including sources and components of strategic culture. Part III presents a number of national strategic cultural profiles, representing the state of contemporary strategic culture scholarship. Part IV addresses the utility of strategic culture for practitioners and scholars. Part V summarizes the key theoretical and practical insights offered by the volume’s contributors. This handbook will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, defense studies, security studies, and international relations in general, as well as to professional practitioners.

Author : P. Christopher Earley
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804743126
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Intelligence written by P. Christopher Earley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people to integrate themselves in new cultures. Strategies for selecting and training people on global perspectives are critical for managing business. In this book, the authors develop the idea of cultural intelligence and examine its three essential facets: cognition, the ability to develop patterns from cultural cues; motivation, the desire and ability to engage others; and behavior, the capability to act in accordance with cognition and motivation. They explore the fundamental nature of cultural intelligence and its relationship to other frameworks of intelligence.-Back cover.

Author : David A. Livermore
Publisher : AMACOM/American Management Association
ISBN 13 : 0814414877
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading with Cultural Intelligence written by David A. Livermore and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is CQ? And why do leaders need it in our increasingly connected world?

Author : Kenneth D. Johnson
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
ISBN 13 : 1584873930
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Strategic Culture written by Kenneth D. Johnson and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 2 decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has made great gains in national development and economic growth and now stands as one of the most important states on the world scene. It is extremely important for U.S. policymakers to have a contextual understanding of what shapes Chinese thought and behavior thus driving Chinese political, economic, and military imperatives. With much of the American public accepting the "China Threat" theory, it is critical that the United States recognize the role of strategic culture in shaping China's domestic and external policies. This paper illustrates the key characteristics of Chinese strategic culture-philosophy, history, and domestic factors that, to a remarkable extent, structure the strategic objectives of China's formal foreign policy and explain how Chinese strategic interests are defined by modern Chinese pragmatic nationalism, its drive for modernization, and the desire for China to have a more prominent role in the Asian and world communities. A concluding analysis of the implications of Chinese strategic culture offer recommendations for U.S. national security policy.