Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security - Softcover

Betts, Richard K.

 
9780231138895: Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
Softcover
ISBN 10: 023113889X ISBN 13: 9780231138895
Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Combining study with experience, Richard K. Betts draws on three decades of work within the U.S. intelligence community to illuminate the paradoxes and problems that frustrate the intelligence process. Unlike America's efforts to improve its defenses against natural disasters, strengthening its strategic assessment capabilities means outwitting crafty enemies who operate beyond U.S. borders. It also requires looking within to the organizational and political dynamics of collecting information and determining its implications for policy.

Betts outlines key strategies for better intelligence gathering and assessment. He describes how fixing one malfunction can create another; in what ways expertise can be both a vital tool and a source of error and misjudgment; the pitfalls of always striving for accuracy in intelligence, which in some cases can render it worthless; the danger, though unavoidable, of "politicizing" intelligence; and the issue of secrecy& mdash;when it is excessive, when it is insufficient, and how limiting privacy can in fact protect civil liberties. Grounding his arguments in extensive theory and policy analysis, Betts takes a comprehensive and realistic look at the convergence of knowledge and power in facing the intelligence challenges of the twenty-first century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard K. Betts is director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of numerous books on military strategy and foreign policy. He has served on the National Commission on Terrorism, staffs of the Senate Intelligence Committee and National Security Council, and advisory panels for the Director of Central Intelligence.

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Verlag
Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
023113889X
ISBN 13 
9780231138895
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Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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