Strategic Intelligence

Klappentext While several fine texts on intelligence have been published over the past decade, there is no complementary set of volumes that addresses the subject in a comprehensive manner for the general reader. This major set explains how the sixteen major U.S. intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, the problems they face in providing further insight into this "raw" information through the techniques of analysis, and the difficulties that accompany the dissemination of intelligence to policymakers in a timely manner. Further, in a democracy it is important to have accountability over secret agencies and to consider some ethical benchmarks in carrying out clandestine operations. Zusammenfassung A five-volume set that explains how the 15 major US intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, the problems they face in providing insight into this "raw" information through the techniques of analysis, and the difficulties that accompany the dissemination of intelligence to policymakers in a timely manner.

Product details

• Authors: Loch K. (EDT) Johnson
• Assisted by: Loch K. Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2006
• EAN: 9780275989422
• ISBN: 978-0-275-98942-2
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 260 mm x 191 mm
• Series: Praeger Security International; Intelligence and the Quest for; Intelligence and the Quest for
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration