George
Gephart, Ronald
M. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: A Bibliography. 2 vols. Washington,
DC: Library of Congress, 1984.
Petersen: "Section in vol. 2 on Secret Service and Psychological Warfare."
[RevWar]
Gerard,
Philip. Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II's Heroic Army of Deception.
New York: Dutton, 2002.
http://www.amazon.com: "The men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were recruited to become phantom warriors in a ghost army to help win the Battle of Europe.... The Special Troops' mission was ... to deceive the German Army into believing that the Allies possessed more troops and material than they actually did and ... to draw enemy fire on their position to allow other units to advance free of lethal resistance.... From the use of inflatable rubber tanks and howitzers to elaborate sound effects, fake radio transmissions, special effects artillery, and other elements of stagecraft, these shadow soldiers put their lives on the line for their brother soldiers and for their country -- only to disappear from history and memory."
[WWII/Eur/Deception]
Gerecht,
Reuel Marc. "The Counterterrorist Myth." Atlantic Monthly,
Jul./Aug. 2001, 38-42. [http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/gerecht.htm]
Writing from Peshawar, the author asserts that "America's counterterrorism program in the Middle East and its environs is a myth.... In Pakistan, where the government's Inter-Services Intelligence Agency and the ruling army are competent and tough, the CIA can do little if these institutions are against it. And they are against it. Where the Taliban and Usama bin Ladin are concerned, Pakistan and the United States aren't allies....
"The only effective way to run offensive counterterrorist operations against Islamic radicals in more or less hostile territory is with 'non-official-cover' officers -- operatives who are in no way openly attached to the U.S. government.... Behind-the-lines counterterrorism operations are just too dangerous for CIA officers to participate in directly.... Unless one of bin Ladin's foot soldiers walks through the door of a U.S. consulate or embassy, the odds that a CIA counterterrorist officer will ever see one are extremely poor."
[Terrorism/01]
Gerecht, Reuel Marc. "The Sorry State of the CIA." On the Issues. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Jul. 2004. [http://www.aei.org] ["A version of this article appeared in the July 19, 2004, issue of The Weekly Standard."]
"George Tenet’s departure from the Central Intelligence Agency provides an opportunity to properly assess and repair the agency’s weaknesses, but real reform requires confronting the entrenched bureaucracy and strengthening the clandestine service in order to infiltrate and thwart terrorist organizations."
[CIA/00s/04]
[Gerhard, William
D.] "Special Issue: USS Liberty." Cryptolog 17,
no. 3 (Jun. 1996): 2-5, 8-11.
"On 8 June 1967, while in international waters, flying the colors of the United States of America, USS LIBERTY was set upon by the military forces of Israel. Many of our cryptographic shipmates were killed or wounded along with other crew members.... William D. Gerhard, National Security Agency, wrote a factual account of the outrage, using the sources at his command. The report was released as a special history report SRH-259. CRYPTOLOG printed this report in a special issue, July 1984, shortly after it became available. We reprint this document now, in memory of our fallen comrades."
[GenPostwar/60s/Liberty]
Gerolymatos,
Andre. Espionage and Treason: A Study of the Proxenia in Political and
Military Intelligence Gathering in Ancient Greece. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben,
1986.
According to Sheldon, I&NS 3.1, this work concerns "the use of the proxenia by the Greeks as a medium for clandestine activity.... [L]ocal citizens serving as proxenoi looked after the interests of other states in their own communities. The proxenos had to be a citizen of the state in which he served, not of the state he represented." The author "explains how these men became a conduit for information and clandestine activities in the course of their normal duties."
Sheldon also identifies some difficulties: "The text is repetitive and plagued by numerous typographical errors, not to mention errors of fact." Beyond these problems, however, "Gerolymatos' efforts to include modern intelligence concepts should be applauded."
[Historical]
Gerolymatos, Andre. Guerrilla Warfare and Espionage in Greece, 1940-1944. New York: Pella, 1992. [pb]
[OtherCountries/Greece/WWII]
Gerson, Lennard
D. The Secret Police in Lenin's Russia. Philadelphia, PA: Temple
University Press, 1976.
Rocca and Dziak: This book "deals with the origins, evolution, and operational characteristics of Soviet state security in its first half decade. A solid piece of research and exposition."
[Russia/Interwar]
Gerson, N.C. "SIGINT in Space." Studies in Intelligence 28, no. 2 (Spring 1984): 41-48. [Richelson, Wizards (2002)]
[GenPostwar/Issues/S&T; NSA/Sigint]
Gerstein, Daniel M.
1. Securing America's Future: Naitonal Strategy in the Information Age. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005.
Chapman, IJI&C 19.3 (Fall 2006), finds that the core argument here "is that the world is leaving the Industrial Age and entering the Information Age, which requires that nations ... change and adapt their military and foreign policies to the new era." The reviewer finds it difficult to comprehend "what kind of information will bring people together across the globe." Gerstein "places great stock in globalization to change the world..., but it's debateable whether globalization" is actually such a force.
2. Leading at the Speed of Light: New Strategies for U.S. Security in the Information Age. Washington, DC: Potomac, 2006.
Baltrusaitis, JFQ 48 (1st Quarter 2008), says that the author's "his attempt to reformulate the U.S. approach to strategic leadership falls short of hitting the mark by attempting to accomplish too much with too little." Gerstein's change to the U.S. security apparatus is based on an assumption of systemic failure. Yet, he fails to "convince[] the reader that he has identified the endemic problem." In addition, he "offers no solution on how to restructure government for the information age other than ordering a congressional review for reorganization."
[GenPostwar/NatSec/00s]
Gerth, Jeff [New York Times].
Gertz, Bill [Washington Times]
Gervasi, Tom.
The Myth of Soviet Military Supremacy. New York: Harper & Row 1986.
Twining, I&NS 4.1, dismisses this work as "an unsophisticated attempt to apply a Marxist-Leninist interpretation to the military reality of superpower rivalry."
[Analysis/Soviet]
Geschwind, C. N. "The Tale of Hushai the Archite." Studies in Intelligence 13, no. 2 (Spring 1969): 21-24.
The author revisits II Samuel, 15-18, for the story of Hushai the Archite, King David's "agent of influence" with insurrectionist son Absalom.
[Historical/Ancient]
Geschwind, C. N. "Wanted: An Integrated Counter-intelligence." Studies in Intelligence 7, no. 3 (Summer 1963): 15-37.
U.S. counterintelligence "forces are so compartmented that they do not register their aggregate inability to deal with the world-wide coordinated enemy attack." The author uses the "German theater" to make his points. He concludes that "[t]he primary cause of our infirmity is governmental inattention to the course, significance, and necessities of the covert war." As a solution, Geschwind proposes "the separation of intelligence and covert war functions and the establishment of a covert war organization."
[CI/To90s]
Getz,
Arlene. "Dangerous Missions." Newsweek Weekend Edition,
9-10 Jan. 1999. [http:// www.newsweek.com]
The central finding of the Accountability Review Board investigation into security at U.S. embassies is that "years of poor planning and low security priorities have left American missions vulnerable to terror attacks.... 'There was a collective failure by several administrations and Congresses over the past decade to invest adequate efforts and resources to reduce the vulnerability of U.S. diplomatic missions,' said review board chairman [Adm.] William Crowe."
[Terrorism/90s/EmbSec]
Gevorkian, Natalia. "The KGB: 'They Still Need Us.'" Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists (Jan./Feb. 1993): 36-38.
[Russia]
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