Intelligence and Strategic Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415523547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 112 str.

Isabelle Duyvesteyn

Opis

This volume explores the nexus between the intelligence process and strategic culture. How can and does the strategic outlook of the United States and the United Kingdom in particular, influence the intelligence gathering, assessment and dissemination process?

Spis treści

1. Foreword: Intelligence and Strategic Culture: Essays on American and British Praxis since the Second World War Joop van Reijn 2. Hearts and Minds, Cultural Awareness and Good Intelligence: The Blueprint for Successful Counter-insurgency? Isabelle Duyvesteyn 3. ‘The Sharp End of the Intelligence Machine’: The Rise of the Malayan Police Special Branch 1948-1955 Georgina Sinclair 4. Sins of Omission and Commission: Strategic Cultural Factors and U.S. Intelligence Failures During the Cold War Matthew M. Aid 5. All that Glitters is Not Gold: the 1953 Coup against Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran Andreas Etges 6. British Intelligence Failures in Iraq John N. L. Morrison 7. Intelligence and Strategic Culture: Some Observations Isabelle Duyvesteyn

O autorze

Isabelle Duyvesteyn is a senior lecturer/researcher at the Department of History of International Relations at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She works in the area of war and peace studies and has published previously on terrorism, insurgency, civil war and strategy.