Stack, Kevin P. "Appreciating President Ford's Legacy to Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 12, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 73-79.
Stack, Kevin P. "Appreciating President Ford's Legacy to Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 12, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 73-79.
"The presidential legacy of Gerald R. Ford has yet to be adequately assessed. But his positive role in defining intelligence community operations and options is certain to assume larger proportions as scholars give additional focus to these aspects of his administration."
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Stack, Kevin P. "The Cold War Intelligence Score." American Intelligence Journal 18, no. 1/2 (1998): 69-72.
The "Editor's Note" appended to this article states: "This comparison effort is of interest even though readers may take exception to some of the author's positions and conclusions."
Clark comment: I agree with that assessment. Using only open-source materials, Stack concludes that "the Soviet Union scored a win over the United States in the 'intelligence security war' of the Cold War." That conclusion may or may be correct, but the strongly conservative ideological bias shown in the author's analysis certainly does little to "prove" his point.
[GenPostwar/CW; Russia/To89][c]
Stack, Kevin P. "A Negative View of Competitive Analysis." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 10, no. 4 (Winter 1997-1998): 456-464. "Commentary: Competitive Intelligence." Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 194-202.
I have not performed a word-by-word comparison of these two articles, but the following quoted material, which sums up the author's argument, is identical in both articles: "[T]he use of outsiders to question judgments made by intelligence officials would not result in improved analysis.... Outsiders called in to refute or negate intelligence estimates would only muddle the process from the decisionmakers' perspective."
[Analysis/Teams][c]
Stack, Kevin P. [Capt/USMCR]
1. "The Role of Intelligence at Inchon." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 14, no. 1 (Jan. 1998): 7-10.
Without denigrating the value of MacArthur's leadership to the victory that Inchon represents, the author offers some thoughts on the "vital role" that intelligence played in the planning process for that bold amphibious landing. Intelligence on the "terrain, weather conditions, and enemy activities played a key role in critical operational and tactical decisions." Despite an undervaluation of the role of national-level intelligence, Stack supports his conclusion that "intelligence analysis in support of the Inchon landing was highly effective and had direct operational payoff."
2. [Maj/USMCR] "Intel Cinches Inchon." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Sep. 2000, 66-69.
See above.
[GenPostwar/50s/Korea]
Staerck, Chris, ed. Allied Photo Reconnaissance of World War II. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 1998.
[UK/WWII/AirRec]
Staerck, Christopher, and Paul Sinnott. Luftwaffe: The Allied Intelligence Files. Dulles, VA: Brassey's, 2002.
Tate, Air & Space Power Journal 19.1 (Spring 2005), finds that "the authors have produced a fine historical document. They include both background information and ... detailed data" on various German aircraft. Their "analysis addresses [each] aircraft’s war record, performance characteristics, and intelligence history -- the latter reflecting the amount of actual information we had on German aircraft during the war."
[UK/WWII/Services/RAF; WWII/USServices/Air]
Stahl, Bob. You're No Good to Me Dead: Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
From advertisement: "One of the best-kept secrets of World War II is the story of the Allied Intelligence Bureau (AIB), the Pacific theater's equivalent of the OSS. Inserted miles behind enemy lines, AIB agents established intelligence networks and guerrilla armies in advance of invasion, all while living off the land and avoiding enemy patrols. This is one agent's extraordinary account of 15 harrowing months 1,500 miles behind Japanese lines."
Crerar, AIJ 16.2/3, sees this as "a compelling memoir, with insights for current and future special operations personnel."
[WWII/FE/Pac/Phil]
Stalker, John. Stalker. London: Harrap, 1988. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988.
Jeffery, I&NS 4.4, notes that this is the autobiography of the British policeman appointed to investigate the killing of six people by the security forces in Northern Ireland in 1982. Here, he recounts the difficulties he encountered in investigating semi-independent, covert activities. This is "an instructive account of security matters in contemporary Northern Ireland."
West, History, 26.1, calls this a "bitter" book, and notes that Stalker's replacement, Colin Sampson, "got to the bottom of what had happened."
See also, Frank Doherty, The Stalker Affair (1986) and Peter Taylor, Stalker: The Search for the Truth (1987).
[UK/Postwar/NIreland]
Stallings, Ron and Michael Foley. "CI and HUMINT Operations in Support of Operation Enduring Freedom." Military Intelligence 29 (Oct.-Dec. 2003): 43-46.
The authors discuss the value of counterintelligence and human intelligence operations (including interrogation) in Afghanistan in 2003.
[MI/Ops/Afghanistan]
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