Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of national security intelligence
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford handbooks |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 886 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780195375886 (alk. paper) 0195375882 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D526 |
| CLC: | D526 |
| Call Number: | D526/O984 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. National security intelligence / Loch K. Johnson -- National security and public anxiety: our changing perceptions / Sir Richard Dearlove -- Theories of intelligence / Peter Gill -- The sources and methods of intelligence studies / James J. Wirtz -- Getting intelligence history right: reflections and recommendations from the inside / Nicholas Dujmovic -- Assessing intelligence performance / John A. Gentry -- The rise of the U.S. intelligence system, 1917-1977 / Michael Warner -- The rise and fall of the CIA / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones -- British strategic intelligence and the Cold War / Len Scot "Throughout the past few decades, interest in the field of national security intelligence has increased dramatically as a series of intelligence scandals and failuressuch as the Iran-contra affair and the false claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction - has brought attention to this young discipline. The terrorist attacks of 2001 further revealed the inadequacies of the U.S. security apparatus, and a motion toward reform has formed in the wake of this tragedy. In our information-dominated age, the organizations that function in the dark are increasingly driving policy decisions, |