Roth, Mark. "Secrets of a Union Spy." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3 May 1998, G1, G10-11.
Roth, Mark. "Secrets of a Union Spy." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3 May 1998, G1, G10-11.
The writer relates some of the exploits of Archibald Hamilton Rowland, Jr., who served with Gen. Philip Sheridan's "scouts." The scouts served in "dual roles as cavalry soldiers and skilled undercover spies."
[CivWar/Un/Gen]
Rothenberg, Herbert C. "Identifying the Future Threat." Studies in Intelligence 12, no. 4 (Fall 1968): 13-21.
"How R&D analysts used mathematical techniques, inductive and deductive logic, mirror imaging, and 'thinking like a Russian' to cope with the 'bathtub curve' of data on new weapons development in the 1960s."
[GenPostwar/Issues/S&T/To70]
Rothkopf, David J. Running The World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power. New York: PublicAffairs, 2005.
To Destler, FA 84.5 (Sep./Oct. 2005), "[e]xtensive quotations from ... many ... important players are the strongest element of the book, illuminating how policymaking really happens.... As a comprehensive analysis of its topic, however, the book falls short." The author "provides lots of raw material ... but no clear set of conclusions or even a general idea of how everything adds up."
Sewall, Parameters, Spring 2006, finds that this work "is less a systematic assessment of the NSC as an institution than a popular history of the making of American foreign policy." The author "writes well and holds the reader despite the scope and slipperiness of his nominal subject. But his underlying goal seems to be recommending a particular flavor of foreign policy.... Rothkopf’s signal contribution lies in demonstrating the importance of personality and relationships in the formulation of American policy."
[GenPostwar/Orgs/NSC & Policy/00s]
Rothstein, Hy S. Afghanistan and the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Maitre, Air & Space Power Journal 21.3 (Fall 2007), notes that the author is "a retired career special-forces officer with 30 years’ active duty." His "concise, well-documented review of the literature, which defines the context of special operations and the arena of unconventional warfare, transforms several vague definitions into clear terminology." Rothstein "argues that despite significant investment in developing special operations, the military lacks the institutional capability of engaging opponents with irregular methods. Employing SOF in a mission does not automatically constitute a special operation."
For Berger, et al, I&NS 22.6 (Dec. 2007), "Rothstein does an excellent job of laying out the requirements for conducting unconventional warfare and uses his analysis of operations in Afghanistan to expose the failures of the US military, more specifically, of US special operations forces.... The only major shortcoming of the book is that it focuses primarily on the infrastructure requirements of an unconventional capability."
[MI/Ops/Afgh/Books; MI/SpecOps/00s]
Rottman, Gordon L. US Special Warfare Units in the Pacific Theater 1941-45: Scouts, Raiders, Rangers and Reconnaissance Units. London: Osprey, 2005. [pb]
From back cover: "The bitter fighting in the Pacific Theater required new forms of warfare, and the gathering of detailed intelligence information on the remote and varied islands and their determined defenders. As a result, new scout, raider and reconnaissance units were formed -- the pioneers of today's special forces. Some units were small, while others comprised thousands of men. All contributed significantly to the war effort. This book examines a wide range of PTO special-warfare units, including the Alaskan and Alamo scouts, 5217th/1st Recon Battalion, Marine Amphibious Recon and Raider units, Amphibious Scouts, and 6th Ranger Battalion."
[WWII/FEPac/SpecWar]
Roukis, George S., Hugh Conway, and Bruce Charnov, eds. Global Corporate Intelligence. New York: Quorum, 1990.
[GenPostwar/Econ/Corp]
Rout, Leslie B., Jr., and John F. Bratzel. Shadow War: German Espionage and United States Counterespionage in Latin America During World War II. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1986.
Haglund, I&NS 4.3, finds that the authors have provided excessive detail ("almost numbing") in this "definitive study" of the "wartime German-American undercover rivalry" in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. The work "could use a bit more analysis and synthesis."
[WWII/Gen & Eur/Ger]
Rovner, Joshua. "Preparing for a Nuclear Iran: The Role of the CIA." Strategic Insights 4, no. 11 (Nov. 2005). [http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/si/2005/Nov/rovnerNov05.asp]
"The CIA should address two puzzles that, once solved, will help deter Iran from proliferating nuclear materials and using its own arsenal coercively: First, it should attempt to isolate the unique characteristics of nuclear material produced at Iranian facilities.... Second, the CIA should provide a detailed analysis of Israel’s ability to strike Iranian facilities."
[CIA/00s/05/Gen]
Rovner, Joshua, and Austin Long. "The Perils of Shallow Theory: Intelligence Reform and the 9/11 Commission." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 4 (Winter 2005-2006): 609-637.
Clark comment: This is an interesting critique of the "reform" recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. Although the "theories" of failure are more assumed by the authors than articulated by the Commission, the criticisms are well reasoned and supported. The conclusion that the Commission "got it wrong" is inescapable.
The authors present "two principal arguments...: First, the proposed reforms are mostly unrelated to the postulated causes of failure. Second, the theories are underdeveloped, contradictory, and basically unsatisfying on their own."
[Reform/00s/05/Gen]
Rowan, Roy. The Four Days of the Mayaguez. New York: Norton, 1975.
[GenPostwar/70s/Mayaguez]
Rowen, Henry S. Reforming Intelligence: A Market Approach. Working Group on Intelligence Reform. Washington, DC: Consortium for the Study of Intelligence, 1993.
[Reform]
Rowlett, Frank B. The Story of Magic: Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer. Laguna Hills, CA: Aegean Park Press, 1998.
According to Bates, NIPQ 15.1, these are the memoirs of the man who "was largely responsible for the ciphers used by the United States in the thirties and forties and for duplicating the Japaneses diplomatic cipher machine, PURPLE, through cryptanalysis." Rowlett's story begins in 1930 and ends before Pearl Harbor. The memoir has "no footnotes because this is a first hand account."
Beard, I&NS 15.4, notes that "[t]hanks to this memoir, we know quite a lot more about just how the tiny corps of Army Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) and Navy cryptanalysts solved 'Red,' 'Purple' and other Japanese codes." David Kahn provides a "useful Foreword and Epilogue."
For Kruh, Cryptologia 23.2 , this "is one of only a few cryptologic works that merits a place in the personal library of anyone interested in codes and ciphers."
See Rowlett's obituary in Electronic Telegraph, 18 Jul. 1998 [http://www. telegraph.co.uk].
[Interwar/U.S.; WWII/Magic]
Rowley, Coleen. "What the FBI Needs -- and Doesn't Need." Time, 26 Apr. 2004, 33.
[FBI/00s/04]
Rowny, Edward L. "Homeland Defense Needs a Real Commander." Wall Street Journal, 14 Feb. 2002, A20.
[DHS/02]
Roy, Denny. "Human Rights as a National Security Threat: The Case of the PRC." Issues and Studies 32, no. 2 (Feb. 1996): 65-81.
[GenPostwar/NatSec]
Roy, H.K. [pseudonym] "Betrayal in the Balkans." Intelligencer 12, no. 1 (Summer 2001): 45-51.
This is the first-person account of a CIA clandestine services officer's serious travails in Sarajevo in mid-1995. He was there "to provide intelligence on the military situation in Bosnia, and on Bosnian Serb military targets and capabilities, in advance of the expected NATO intervention." He was betrayed by the Bosnian government to Iranian intelligence and forced to leave Sarajevo quickly to avoid being kidnapped and/or killed.
[CIA/90s/95; CIA/C&C/DO]
Royden, Barry G. "CIA and National HUMINT: Preparing for the 21st Century." Defense Intelligence Journal 6, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 15-22.
This is largely boiler plate, churned out by a career CIA officer on the faculty at the Joint Military Intelligence College. He urges that the Defense HUMINT Service (DHS) "be viewed as complementing rather than competing with" the CIA's Directorate of Operations, a view that probably fits the hopes (or reflects the fears) of senior CIA managers.
[CIA/C&C][c]
Royden, Barry G. "An Exceptional Espionage Operation: Tolkachev, A Worthy Successor to Penkovsky." Studies in Intelligence 47, no. 3 (2003). [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol47no3/article02.html]
The author of this article, who obviously had direct access to the DO's files on Tolkachev, provides a detailed case study of a human intelligence operation. It deserves to be read by anyone interested in the spy game.
[CIA/70s & 80s/Tolkachev]
Rozenberg, Joshua. "Former Spy Tomlinson Escapes Prosecution." Telegraph (London), 15 Mar. 2007. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
The Crown Prosecution Service announced on 15 March 2007 that "former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson will escape prosecution for blackmail and offences under the Official Secrets Act because of the risks that a trial would pose to national security.... He had been investigated on suspicion of publishing a list of undercover MI6 officers, a charge he vehemently denied."
[UK/PostCW/00s/01/Tomlinson]
Rozumny, Nicolas [SFC/USA]. "Welcome to the Big League." Military Intelligence 21, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1995): 23-25, 55.
Re Battle Command Training Program (BCTP) Warfighter Seminar.
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