Intelligence : from secrets to policy /: from secrets to policy. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mark M. Lowenthal.
• Other Names: Lowenthal, Mark M
• Contents: Chapter 1: What is "Intelligence"?; Why Have Intelligence Agencies?; What Is Intelligence About?; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 2: The Development of U.S. Intelligence; Major Themes; Major Historical Developments; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 3: The U.S. Intelligence Community; Alternative Ways of Looking at the Intelligence Community; The Many Different Intelligence Communities; Intelligence Community Relationships That Matter; The Intelligence Budget Process; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 4: The Intelligence Process - A Macro Look: Who Does What For Whom?; Requirements; Collection; Processing and Exploitation; Analysis and Production; Dissemination and Consumption; Feedback; Thinking about the Intelligence Process; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 5: Collection and The Collection Disciplines; Overarching Themes; Strengths and Weaknesses; Conclusion; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 6: Analysis; Major Themes; Analytical Issues; Further Readings; Chapter 9: The Role of The Policy Maker; The U.S. National Security Policy Process; Who Wants What?; The Intelligence Process: Policy and Intelligence; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 10: Oversight and Accountability; Executive Oversight Issues; Congressional Oversight; Issues in Congressional Oversight; Internal Dynamics of Congressional Oversight; The Courts; Conclusion; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 11: The Intelligence Agenda: Nation-States; The Primacy of the Soviet Issue; The Emphasis on Soviet Military Capabilities; The Emphasis on Statistical Intelligence; The “Comfort” of a Bilateral Relationship; Collapse of the Soviet Union; Intelligence and the Soviet Problem; The Current Nation-State Issue; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 12: The Intelligence Agenda: Transnational Issues; U.S. National Security Policy and Intelligence after the Cold War; Intelligence and the New Priorities; Cyberspace; Terrorism; Proliferation; Narcotics; Economics; Demographics; Health and the Environment; Peacekeeping Operations; Support to the Military; Conclusion; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 13: Ethical and Moral Issues in Intelligence; General Moral Questions; Issues Related to Collection and Covert Action; Analysis-Related Issues; Oversight-Related Issues; The Media; Conclusion; Further Readings; Chapter 14: Intelligence Reform; The Purpose of Reform; Issues in Intelligence Reform; Conclusion; Key Terms; Further Readings; Chapter 15: Foreign Intelligence Services; Britain; China; France; Israel; Russia; Other Services; Other Services in Brief; Conclusion; Further Readings; SIGINT - William Nolte; Open Source - Eliot Jardines; GEOINT - Darryl Murdock; HUMINT - Michael Althoff, William Huntington; MASINT - John Morris;
• Edition: Sixth edition
• Publisher Details: Washington DC : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (560 pages)
• Subjects: 327.1273; Intelligence service -- United States; Intelligence service
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483307770; 1483307778
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