The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the Iran-Contra affair have shown, controlling intelligence is a problem which policy-makers and concerned citizens have rarely examined and imperfectly understood. Of the seven contributors, five have direct experience of working with or in intelligence, and all have written extensively on the subject.
The vital ingredient in the formulation and execution of a successful foreign policy is intelligence. For the USA, as the Bay of Pigs incident and the...
David A. Charters A. Stuart Farson Glenn P. Hastedt
Of the many functions carried out by intelligence agencies, analysis and assessment has received comparatively little scholarly attention. In October 1994, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) and the Intelligence Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) attended to this deficit by holding an international conference on the subject in Ottawa.
Of the many functions carried out by intelligence agencies, analysis and assessment has received comparatively little scholarly attention. In October ...