Scott, Len, and R. Gerald Hughes. "Intelligence, Crises and Security: Lessons from History?" Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 5 (Oct. 2006): 653-674. Scott, Len, and R. Gerald Hughes. "Intelligence, Crises and Security: Lessons from History?" Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 5 (Oct. 2006): 653-674.
This article is primarily stagesetting for the other articles included in this volume (see below). Nonetheless, the authors make a number of salient points, including the observation that for critics in the United States, "intelligence is an ingredient in, as well as cover for, more fundamental failings of political leadership and policy-making."
Scott, Len V., and R. Gerald Hughes, eds.
1. "Special Issue on 'Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects.'" Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 5 (Oct 2006): entire issue.
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2. Intelligence, Crises and Security: Prospects and Retrospects. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Clark comment: This book consists of articles originally published in Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 5 (Oct. 2006) (see above).
Peake, Studies 52.2 (Jun. 2008) and Intelligencer 16.1 (Spring 2008), comments that "[w]hat is missing from this collection is a summary chapter that relates the articles to the overall aim or theme."
Scott, L.V., Peter Jackson, and R. Gerald Hughes. Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquires into the Secret State. Studies in Intelligence Series. London: Frank Cass, 2005.
From advertisement: "Scholars seeking to understand the role of secret intelligence in political affairs have sought to make use of relevant but constrained archives. This book presents documents in the public domain that illustrate issues in the realm of intelligence."
Shukman, Harold, ed. Agents for Change: Intelligence Services in the 21st Century. London: St. Ermin's, 2000.
Søilen, Klaus Solberg. Introduction to Private and Public Intelligence: The Swedish School of Competitive Intelligence. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2005.
From "Preface": This "book is not about state and military intelligence, and it is not about the history of intelligence.... The book is primarily about private intelligence." (pp. 7-8)
Soutou, George-Henri, Jacques Frémeaux, and Olivier Forcade, eds. L'Exploitation de renseignement en Europe et États-Unis des années 1930 aux années 1960. [The Exploitation of Intelligence in Europe and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s] Paris: Economica, 2001. [Kahn, I&NS 23.2 (Apr. 2008)]
Stempel, John D. "The Impact of Religion on Intelligence." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 18, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 280-295.
Without rejecting the need for organizational reform, the author suggests that a greater understanding of the role of religion by those responsible for meeting intelligence, diplomatic, or military needs might make such reform "less critical."
Sullivan, Brian R. "Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism: A Clausewitzian-Historical Analysis." Journal of Intelligence History 3, no. 1 (Summer 2003). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/previous.html]
From abstract: "Clausewitz' seeming rejection of the value of intelligence applies only on the tactical level. When he wrote, the speedy and accurate transmission of information was rare, making battlefield use problematic. Technological developments ... since Clausewitz' experience with war have largely ... eliminated such communications defects. Nonetheless, the effective application of intelligence still depends not so much on technological as on human factors, especially interagency cooperation, good leadership and political resolve."
Taylor, Stan A., ed. "Special Issue on Spying in Film and Fiction." Intelligence and National Security 23, no. 1 (Feb. 2008): entire issue.
Todd, Paul, and Jonathan Bloch. Global Intelligence: The World's Secret Services Today. London: Zed Books, 2003.
From advertisement: This book "[e]xplains how the war on terrorism provides a wholly new context for ... secret services and intelligence agencies to operate in ... and [t]ells us the changing priorities and working methods" of many of the world's secret services. "This up-to-date account raises important issues, including the new roles the secret services have found for themselves as they target 'rogue states', 'the war on drugs', and 'terrorists.'"
Peake, Studies 49.1 (2005), notes that the authors "assume that the end of the Cold War left intelligence agencies scrambling for work, never realizing that the mission finds the agency, not the other way around." Nevertheless, this book "presents ideas and alternative views worth consideration."
Walker, Graham F., ed. The Search for WMD: Non-Proliferation, Intelligence and Pre-emption in the New Security Environment. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie University Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, 2006.
Peake, Studies 52.3 (Sep. 2008), finds that the analysis in the 25 articles included here "is generally fair and insightful." The collection offers "viewpoints from outside the Intelligence Community."
Wark, Wesley K., ed. "Special Issue on Twenty-First Century Intelligence" Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 4 (Winter 2003): entire issue.
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Williams, Robert V., and Ben-Ami Lipetz, eds. Covert and Overt: Recollecting and Connecting Intelligence Service and Information Science. Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2005. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005.
According to Brooks, NIPQ 22.2 (Apr. 2006), this "is a collection of articles and recollections of members [of the American Society for Information Science and Technology] who have served at one time in the Intelligence field and subsequently have made careers as librarians, computer scientists, and other fields related to the structured process of storing and retrieving data.... Many of the articles are 'sea stories', but there are also serious reflections on the application of the information science to the intelligence profession."
Peake, Studies 50.4 (2006) and Intelligencer 15.2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007), comments that although some of its material is outdated, the book is "[g]ently thought provoking."
For Kleppinger, DIJ 16.2 (2007), "this book offers a unique collation of perspectives on how intelligence agencies have managed information in the past." However, it "suffers from deficits of contemporaneousness, unevenness, and poor structure."
Wyman, Janet. Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History of Spies and Espionage. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006.
This work was published in conjunction with the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, and is targeted at the 9-12 age group. Engberg, Booklist (via Amazon.com), comments that "[h]eavily illustrated pages introduce legendary spies through the ages, the techniques of the trade, and glossaries of terms, including spy agencies around the world.... The format is jumbled, with references sometimes appearing pages before they are fully explained, and there are no source notes or index to support the text."
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