On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World

Steele, Robert David; David L. Boren

ISBN 10: 0971566100 / ISBN 13: 9780971566101

Published by OSS International Press, 2001

About this Item

Hardcover with DJ. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. Glossy DJ is clean and snug to boards. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 2001. 495 pages. Inscribed on the ffep by the author, Robert D. Steele -- dated March 2002. In very good condition. Binding is strong with clean and unmarked pages.

Seller Inventory # 9-80

Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World
• Publisher: OSS International Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0971566100
• ISBN 13: 9780971566101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

This is the second edition of the book, identical in all respects to the first but with the addition of a single page detailing the six intelligence and counterintelligence failures that allowed the 9/11 attacks to occur. This book is about the reinvention of national, defense and business intelligence within the larger context of an open world--a world where "Evil Empires" and the Berlin Wall have fallen--but also a world where transportation, power, financial, and communications infrastructures are so open as to dramatically increase the vulnerability of America to trans-continental epidemics, anonymous information terrorism, and nation-wide power black-outs and financial melt-downs. As the world enters the Information Century, and simultaneously confronts the fragmentation of many nation-states and the emergence of widespread ethnic, tribal and criminal gang terrorism and confrontation, no topic can be more important to federal, state, and local governments--and to international, national, and local businesses than the topic of "intelligence". Thankfully, there are many positive lessons and methods to be drawn from the U.S. Intelligence Community, and there are a wealth of open sources and services that can be drawn upon to make both government and business "smarter" about their environment, their customers, and their competitors. This book is a primer on the role of intelligence qua sources, methods, and community at the dawn of the 21st century.