Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence (Intelligence and National Security Library) - Hardcover

Shulsky, Abram N.; Schmitt, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0028810252 ISBN 13: 9780028810256

Publisher: Brassey's Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Revised after the breakup of the Soviet Union with 40 percent new material, this is the first comprehensive overview of the elements of intelligence, with more than 12,000 in print.

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Review:

"Easy to read and understand."

The best place for the general reader to start learning about the real world of intelligence work."

A thoughtful, authoritative study of intelligence written clearly and insightfully.

""Silent Warfare" is the ideal primer on intelligence. It offers not only a comprehensive introduction to the subject, but an analysis of intelligence that exposes the flaws in the conventional wisdom of the intelligence community. A superbly balanced work."

"Silent Warfare is the ideal primer on intelligence. It offers not only a comprehensive introduction to the subject, but an analysis of intelligence that exposes the flaws in the conventional wisdom of the intelligence community. A superbly balanced work."--Elliott A. Cohen, professor and director of strategic studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
--Elliott A. Cohen

"Contains many insights. . . . Well worth reading."--Ray S. Cline, former deputy director of the CIA
--Ray S. Cline, former deputy director of the CIA

"The best place for the general reader to start learning about the real world of intelligence work."--Robin W. Winks, author of Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War
--Robin W. Winks, author of Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War

"A thoughtful, authoritative study of intelligence written clearly and insightfully."--Ronald Kessler, author of The Spy in the Russian Club
--Ronald Kessler

About the Author:

ABRAM N. SHULSKY is a former minority staff director of the Senate Committee on Intelligence and a former consultant to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is a consultant to the Rand Corporation. GARY SCIIMITT is the executive director of the Project for the New American Century. Both authors live in the Washington, D.C., area.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brassey's Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0028810252
• ISBN 13: 9780028810256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 304