Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History - Couverture souple

 
9781589017702: Learning from the Secret Past: Cases in British Intelligence History
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1589017706 ISBN 13 : 9781589017702
Editeur : Georgetown University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Identifying "lessons learned" is not new-the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a collection of ten carefully selected cases from post-World War II British intelligence history. Some of the cases include the Malayan Emergency, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Northern Ireland, and the lead up to the Iraq War. Each case, accompanied by authentic documents, illuminates important lessons that today's intelligence officers and policymakers--in Britain and elsewhere--should heed.

Written by former and current intelligence officers, high-ranking government officials, and scholars, the case studies in this book detail intelligence successes and failures, discuss effective structuring of the intelligence community, examine the effective use of intelligence in counterinsurgency, explore the ethical dilemmas and practical gains of interrogation, and highlight the value of human intelligence and the dangers of the politicization of intelligence. The lessons learned from this book stress the value of past experience and point the way toward running effective intelligence agencies in a democratic society.

Scholars and professionals worldwide who specialize in intelligence, defense and security studies, and international relations will find this book to be extremely valuable.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert Dover is a senior lecturer in international relations at Loughborough University (UK) and the author of The Europeanization of British Defence Policy, 1997-2005.

Michael S. Goodman is a senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, official historian of the Joint Intelligence Committee (UK), and author of Spying on the Nuclear Bear: Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb.

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Éditeur
Georgetown University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1589017706
ISBN 13 
9781589017702
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Dover Robert, Goodman Michael S.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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