Routledge Companion to Intelligence Studies (Routledge Companions)
Language: English
Pages: 366
ISBN: 113895196X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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:
- Part II:
- Part III:
- Part IV:
- Part V:
The evolution of intelligence studies;
Abstract approaches to intelligence;
Historical approaches to intelligence;
Systems of intelligence;
Contemporary challenges.
With a broad focus on the origins, practices and nature of intelligence, the book not only addresses classical issues, but also examines topics of recent interest in security studies. The overarching aim is to reveal the rich tapestry of intelligence studies in both a sophisticated and accessible way.
This Companion will be essential reading for students of intelligence studies and strategic studies, and highly recommended for students of defence studies, foreign policy, Cold War studies, diplomacy and international relations in general.
they performed far more effectively when deployed in conjunction with military forces supported by advanced technology, rather than in small clandestine units that, though extraordinarily courageous, often had to operate with resources that were far too primitive. If, by chance, the government elected in 2012 went against national tradition and decided to break the traditional mould – to which the 2008 reform has merely added a few stopgap measures – by gathering all its special services into two
intelligence theorists measure intelligence capacity in terms of its ability to lubricate choice for competitors. Yet, this is the essence of the function. To lubricate choice, intelligence must deliver leverage or winning knowledge of some 45 Jennifer Sims kind. Good intelligence involves reducing uncertainty relative to adversaries and in the context of conflict at hand. Its essence therefore encumbers both collectors and users. In some cases, though not all, intelligence can be wrong (not
persuading Americans that certain capabilities were within reach. The United States’ detonation of nuclear weapons in 1945 may have been comparably important in making clear to the Soviets, as to everyone else, that nuclear weapons 55 R. Gerald Hughes were more than a theoretical possibility and that it was perfectly feasible to build a weapon that could be transported by airplane. (Schelling 1966: 275) Since 1945 Sun Tzu’s reputation, not least as an ancient advocate of espionage, has soared
Air Force has operated on behalf of the US government what is generically referred to as the Atomic Energy Detection System (AEDS), whose mission it is to detect nuclear weapons explosions around the world using a wide array of manned and unmanned MASINT sensor systems. Compared with the CIA and NSA, the AEDS was a relatively small endeavour. As of 1984, 1,300 military and civilian personnel were operating 19 detachments, four operating locations and more than 50 unmanned equipment locations in
Kingdom and working of British intelligence activity as a whole at home and overseas in order to ensure efficiency, economy, and prompt adaptation to changing requirements’. To achieve this, the Committee has several specific responsibilities: • • • • • • to assess events and situations relating to external affairs, defence, terrorism, major international criminal activity, scientific, technical and international economic matters and other transnational issues, drawing on secret intelligence,