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Title: Transforming U.S. Intelligence
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 1589010698
EAN: 9781589010697
ISBN: 9781589010697
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 24/08/2005
Description: The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. "Transforming U.S. Intelligence" argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather than on its bureaucratic arrangements. In fact, while the recent restructuring, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, may solve some problems, it has also created new ones. The authors of this volume agree that transforming policies and practices will be the most effective way to tackle future challenges facing the nation's security. This volume's contributors, who have served in intelligence agencies, the Departments of State or Defense, and the staffs of congressional oversight committees, bring their experience as insiders to bear in thoughtful and thought-provoking essays that address what such an overhaul of the system will require.In the first section, contributors discuss twenty-first-century security challenges and how the intelligence community can successfully defend U.S. national interests. The second section focuses on new technologies and modified policies that can increase the effectiveness of intelligence gathering and analysis. Finally, contributors consider management procedures that ensure the implementation of enhanced capabilities in practice. "Transforming U.S. Intelligence" supports the mandate of the new director of national intelligence by offering both careful analysis of existing strengths and weaknesses in U.S. intelligence and specific recommendations on how to fix its problems without harming its strengths. These recommendations, based on intimate knowledge of the way U.S. intelligence actually works, include suggestions for the creative mixing of technologies with new missions to bring about the transformation of U.S. intelligence without incurring unnecessary harm or expense.The goal is the creation of an intelligence community that can rapidly respond to developments in international politics, such as the emergence of nimble terrorist networks while reconciling national security requirements with the rights and liberties of American citizens.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 254mm
Item Length: 178mm
Item Weight: 544g
Contributor: Mark M. Lowenthal (Contributions by), Burton Gerber (Contributions by), Henry A. Crumpton (Contributions by), Jennifer E. Sims (Contributions by), John MacGaffin (Contributions by), Donald C. F. Daniel (Contributions by), Britt Snider (Contributions by), Jennifer E. Sims (Edited by), James R. Gosler (Contributions by), James Simon (Contributions by), Burton Gerber (Edited by), Ernest May (Contributions by), Amy Sands (Contributions by), Douglas MacEachin (Contributions by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Author: Mark M. Lowenthal
Release Year: 2005

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