| |||||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
by Dan Russell
|
by Christopher Andrew
|
From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods by Martha C. Howell |
by Kate L. Turabian
|
by Mark M. Lowenthal
|
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The book provides an intellectual foundation for unclassified intelligence work by using the National Drug Control Strategy as an example of the dangers of not sharing intelligence and information between different government and anticrime agencies with related missions....This textbook could usefully serve as a case study reader for upper-level or graduate courses in narcotics or police work for for a law and government ethics course. I hope that the author, who sharply but scrupulously catalogues the events, policy decisions, and outcomes on the war on drugs, will write a follow-up book using a decision model to explain the failure to curtail narcotic smuggling into the United States.”–Criminal Justice Review
“Arguing the impossibility of stopping drugs at their source, the book builds a compelling case for shifting U.S. assets to the southern borders of the United States through a strategy that causes the traffickers to pass through a series of obstacles designed to slow and impede operations.”–Violence and Abuse Abstracts
“Arguing the impossibility of stopping drugs at their source, the book builds a compelling case for shifting U.S. assets to the southern borders of the United States through a strategy that causes the traffickers to pass through a series of obstacles designed to slow and impede operations.”–
Product Description
Against the backdrop of U.S. drug policy and strategy, this important work, written by an experienced Intelligence and Special Operations Officer and Scholar, peels away the rhetoric to present an insider's view of cocaine trafficking in the Western Hemisphere. From the Huallaga and Chapare Valleys, through the cocaine transit countries to the U.S. border, this book compares and contrasts the enormous success of the traffickers to the monolithic U.S. drug policy that produces no "end-game" and conceals its failures behind a "classified" stamp. Drawing on his experience as the Counter Drug Intelligence Team Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory and as a "Black Hat" Team member with the U.S. Southern Command, the author approaches drug trafficking from the narcotraficantes point of view to paint a picture that portrays the cocaine industry as it really is. Arguing that it is impossible to stop drugs at their source, the author builds a compelling case for shifting U.S. assets to the southern borders of the United States, through a strategy that causes the traffickers to pass through a series of obstacles designed to slow and impede their operations.
Identifying drug trafficking as an examplar of the Gray Area Phenomena--the impact of non-state players and organizations on a post-colonial, multi-tribal world--the author brings a currency to his work using Open Source Intelligence as the vehicle by which the drug trafficking world may be assessed and analyzed. Sharing the Secrets offers an "Intelligence" for the new world disorder that enables decision-makers to recognize and define the new threats and suggests how realistic policy and strategy might be evaluated and re-cast. This work will be of particular interest to policy-makers, law enforcement and Intelligence professionals, and scholars as it "opens the book to the right page" and provides for the first time the stubborn facts that they may have been neglecting in the war on drugs. Sharing the Secrets is a body of descriptive, proscriptive, and prescriptive material that will enable serious public discusion to begin on national drug policy and strategy.
Identifying drug trafficking as an examplar of the Gray Area Phenomena--the impact of non-state players and organizations on a post-colonial, multi-tribal world--the author brings a currency to his work using Open Source Intelligence as the vehicle by which the drug trafficking world may be assessed and analyzed. Sharing the Secrets offers an "Intelligence" for the new world disorder that enables decision-makers to recognize and define the new threats and suggests how realistic policy and strategy might be evaluated and re-cast. This work will be of particular interest to policy-makers, law enforcement and Intelligence professionals, and scholars as it "opens the book to the right page" and provides for the first time the stubborn facts that they may have been neglecting in the war on drugs. Sharing the Secrets is a body of descriptive, proscriptive, and prescriptive material that will enable serious public discusion to begin on national drug policy and strategy.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
› Visit Amazon's J. F. Holden-Rhodes Page
› Visit Amazon's J. F. Holden-Rhodes Page
Inside This Book
(learn more)
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
(learn more)
counter drug intelligence, maritime trafficking, drug aircraft, counter drug programs, counter drug efforts, drug trafficking threat, gray area phenomena, national drug control strategy, open source intelligence, drug law enforcement agencies, drug arena, counter drug operations, drug mission, drug trafficking activities, drug trafficking organizations, national drug policy, drug dollars, trafficking business, intelligence products, intelligence environment, technical assets, strategic intelligence, cocaine base, actionable intelligence, intelligence production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Sharing the Secrets, New Mexico, Getting It Right, Southern Command, New York, Operation Alliance, Latin America, White House, State Department, Coast Guard, Andean Strategy, Drug Enforcement Administration, Garcia Abrego, The Militarization of the War, Operation Intercept, Sherman Kent, Government Printing Office, South America, Customs Service, Department of Defense, Joint Task Force, Operation Just Cause, Cold War, Marijuana Plantation New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
counter drug intelligence, maritime trafficking, drug aircraft, counter drug programs, counter drug efforts, drug trafficking threat, gray area phenomena, national drug control strategy, open source intelligence, drug law enforcement agencies, drug arena, counter drug operations, drug mission, drug trafficking activities, drug trafficking organizations, national drug policy, drug dollars, trafficking business, intelligence products, intelligence environment, technical assets, strategic intelligence, cocaine base, actionable intelligence, intelligence production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Sharing the Secrets, New Mexico, Getting It Right, Southern Command, New York, Operation Alliance, Latin America, White House, State Department, Coast Guard, Andean Strategy, Drug Enforcement Administration, Garcia Abrego, The Militarization of the War, Operation Intercept, Sherman Kent, Government Printing Office, South America, Customs Service, Department of Defense, Joint Task Force, Operation Just Cause, Cold War, Marijuana Plantation New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 64
books:
See all 64 books this book cites
4
books
cite this book:
- Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy by Sherman Kent on 8 pages
- Informing Statecraft by Angelo Codevilla on 4 pages
- Secrets of the Vietnam War by Phillip B. Davidson on 4 pages
- War, Peace and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century by Colin S. Gray on 4 pages
- Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War by Michael Levine on 4 pages
See all 64 books this book cites
- An Industrial Geography of Cocaine (Latin American Studies: Social Sciences & Law) by Christian M. Allen on page 6
- Globalization's Contradictions: Geopraphies of Discipline, Destruction and Transformation by Dennis Conway in Back Matter
- Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise (Artech House Information Warfare Library) by Edward Waltz on page 52
- Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) by Peter Andreas on page 83
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
30% buy the item featured on this page: Sharing the Secrets: Open Source Intelligence and the War on Drugs $106.95 |
 |
20% buy Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence, 3d Edition $16.47 |
 |
19% buy The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World $11.53 |
 |
16% buy Thwarting Enemies at Home and Abroad: How to Be a Counterintelligence Officer $14.93 |
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
So You'd Like to...
Product Information from the Amapedia Community
Beta (What's this?)Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.com.
› See featured Amapedia.com articles
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Health, Mind & Body > Recovery > Drug Dependency
- Books > Nonfiction > Crime & Criminals > Criminology
- Books > Nonfiction > Crime & Criminals > War on Drugs
- Books > Nonfiction > Current Events > Poverty > Social Services & Welfare
- Books > Nonfiction > Government > Federal Government
- Books > Nonfiction > Government > Public Policy
- Books > Nonfiction > Politics
- Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > Levels of Government
- Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology
Look for Similar Items by Subject
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. |
