Secret Intelligence - Reader

✍ Scribed by Richard J. Aldrich; Christopher M. Andrew; Wesley K. Wark

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 679
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the future of intelligence.

Secret intelligence has never enjoyed a higher profile. The events of 9/11, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the missing WMD controversy, public debates over prisoner interrogation, together with the revelations of figures such as Edward Snowden, recent cyber attacks and the rise of 'hybrid warfare' have all contributed to make this a ‘hot’ subject over the past two decades.

Aiming to be more comprehensive than existing books, and to achieve truly international coverage of the field, this book provides key readings and supporting material for students and course convenors. It is divided into four main sections, each of which includes full summaries of each article, further reading suggestions and student questions:

•　　 The intelligence cycle

•　　 Intelligence, counter-terrorism and security

•　　 Ethics, accountability and secrecy

•　　 Intelligence and the new warfare

This new edition contains essays by leading scholars in the field and will be essential reading for students of intelligence studies, strategic studies, international security and political science in general, and of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current relationship between intelligence and policy-making.

✦ Table of Contents

Secret Intelligence
Contents
The editors
The contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What is intelligence?
1 Wanted
2 Ideas of intelligence
Part 1 The intelligence cycle
3 Observations on successful espionage
4 All glory is fleeting
5 Introducing social media intelligence (SOCMINT)
6 Exploring the role and value of open source intelligence
7 Surprise despite warning
8 Is politicization ever a good thing?
9 American presidents and their intelligence communities
10 Squaring the circle
11 International intelligence co-operation
12 Foreign intelligence liaison
Part 2 Intelligence, counter-terrorism and security
13 The 9/11 terrorist attacks
14 Deja vu?
15 Reports, politics, and intelligence failures
16 British intelligence failures and Iraq
17 Intelligence and strategy in the war on Islamist terrorism
18 Intelligence in Northern Ireland
19 Counterintelligence
20 “Delayed disclosure”
Part 3 Ethics, accountability and control
21 The British experience with intelligence accountability
22 The role of news media in intelligence oversight
23 High policing in the security control society
24 Needles in haystacks
25 Ethics and intelligence after September 2001
26 As rays of light to the human soul’?
27 Can the torture of terrorist suspects be justified?
28 Torture
Part 4 Intelligence and the new warfare
29 Covert action and the Pentagon
30 Secret intelligence, covert action and clandestine diplomacy
31 Netcentric warfare, C4ISR and information operations
32 The new frontier
33 Intelligence and counterinsurgency
34 Intelligence and UN peacekeeping
35 Intelligence culture and the Global South
36 Learning to live with intelligence
Some helpful web resources
Index