Silent Warfare

by Shulsky, Abram N.

• ISBN13: 9781574883459
• ISBN10: 1574883453
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: BRASSEY'S

Summary

A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfareis an insider's guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explain such topics as the principles of collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action, and their interrelationship with policymakers and democratic values. This new edition takes account of the expanding literature in the field of intelligence and deals with the consequences for intelligence of vast recent changes in telecommunication and computer technology the new 'œinformation age.' It also reflects the world's strategic changes since the end of the Cold War. This landmark book provides a valuable framework for understanding today's headlines, as well as the many developments likely to come in the real world of the spy.

Author Biography

Abram N. Shulsky was a senior fellow at the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Notice to the Reader	ix
Introduction: Writing about Secrets	xi
What is Intelligence?	1	(10)
The Scope of Intelligence	3	(4)
Intelligence and the Information Age	7	(1)
The Elements of Intelligence	8	(3)
Spies, Machines, and Libraries: Collecting the Data	11	(30)
Human Intelligence Collection	11	(11)
Technical Intelligence Collection	22	(11)
Comparison of Humint and Techint	33	(4)
Open-Source Collection	37	(4)
What does it all Mean? Intelligence Analysis and Production	41	(34)
What Is Analysis?	41	(16)
The Intelligence Product	57	(5)
Intelligence Failure and Surprise	62	(13)
Working Behind the Scenes: Covert Action	75	(24)
What Is Covert Action?	75	(2)
Types and Examples of Covert Action	77	(14)
Covert Action and Secrecy	91	(4)
Covert Action and Intelligence	95	(4)
Spy Versus SPY: Counterintelligence	99	(30)
The Classification of Information	99	(6)
Security	105	(3)
Counterespionage	108	(6)
Multidisciplinary Counterintelligence (MDCI)	114	(2)
Deception and Counterdeception	116	(10)
Counterintelligence Analysis	126	(3)
Guarding the Guardians: The Management of Intelligence	129	(30)
Secrecy and Control	129	(4)
Expertise and Policy	133	(8)
Intelligence and the ``Information Age''	141	(3)
Intelligence and Democracy	144	(15)
Two Views of Intelligence	159	(10)
Historical Development of the American View	160	(7)
Intelligence and Moral Issues	167	(2)
Toward a Theory of Intelligence	169	(8)
Notes	177	(60)
Index	237	(10)
About the Authors	247