Intelligence: From Secrets To Policy Paperback 5

Mark M. Lowenthal

Intelligence veteran Mark M. Lowenthal details how the intelligence community's history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. With straightforward and friendly prose, the book demystifies a complex process. The fifth edition highlights crucial developments and new challenges in the intelligence community, including:- changes in the management of U.S. intelligence and the fourth DNI in five years;- obama administration policies;- developments in collection and analysis;- developments in collection and analysis;- the ability to handle the shift from large-scale attacks to smaller, individual attempts;- expanded coverage of foreign intelligence services and new coverage of intelligence in authoritarian regimes.

1608716759

9.78161E+12

English

SAGE Publications Inc

12/6/2011

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Mark M. Lowenthal has over forty-one years of experience in U.S. intelligence. He has served as the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council, staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, office director and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), and Senior Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. He is now the President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, an education and consulting firm. Dr. Lowenthal received his BA from Brooklyn College and his PhD in history from Harvard University. He serves as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University; the National Intelligence University; and Sciences Po (Paris). He was an adjunct at Columbia University from 1993-2007.

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