Transforming U.S. Intelligence - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589010698 ISBN 13: 9781589010697

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2005

Synopsis

As a result of two recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. Defense Department has given considerable attention to the issues of intelligence support to military operations. Much less effort has been spent on intelligence support to national security strategy write large and, specifically, support to overarching foreign and defense policy. This anthology, written in cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, seeks to restore some balance to this debate. The central purpose of the book is to illuminate ways in which U.S. intelligence capabilities can be significantly improved by adjusting policies and practices rather than institutions and structures. Contributors have all had long experience within the intelligence community--all are "insiders" who have lived with U.S. policies and have experienced both successes and failures with Democratic and Republican administrations. The editors conclude that the U.S. intelligence community must focus on several ways to better its performance in order to adapt to 21st century security challenges: 1) foster agility and mobility, including decentralized and empowered decision-making; 2) improve leadership, and coordinate inherently diverse cultures of disparate U.S. intelligence agencies; 3) strengthen open source intelligence and delegate command.

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About the Author

Jennifer E. Sims is a visiting professor with the security studies program at Georgetown University. She has served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and in the Department of State as a senior intelligence officer. She has published a number of works on intelligence and arms control, including Icarus Restrained: An Intellectual History of Nuclear Arms Control, 1945-1960. Burton Gerber served for 39 years, most of it overseas, as an operations officer in the Central Intelligence Agency. He frequently lectures on ethics as related to public policy and intelligence.

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1589010698
• ISBN 13: 9781589010697
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Sims Jennifer E., Gerber Burton