Identifying "lessons learned" is not new--the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a collection of ten carefully selected cases from post-World War II British intelligence history. Some of the cases include the Malayan Emergency, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Northern Ireland, and the lead up to the Iraq War. Each case, accompanied by authentic documents, illuminates important lessons that...

The "Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies" provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject.

The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular depictions of intelligence and reference works to explain the architecture and underpinnings of intelligence activity. Divided into five comprehensive sections, this Companion" "provides a strong survey of the cutting-edge research in the field of intelligence studies:

• Part I: The...

The "Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies" provides a broad overview of the growing field of intelligence studies.

The recent growth of interest in intelligence and security studies has led to an increased demand for popular depictions of intelligence and reference works to explain the architecture and underpinnings of intelligence activity. Divided into five comprehensive sections, this Companion" "provides a strong survey of the cutting-edge research in the field of intelligence studies:

• Part I: The evolution of intelligence studies;
• Part II:...