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The End of Intelligence: Espionage and State Power in the Information Age Paperback – August 20, 2014

by David Tucker (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
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Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors―and it assesses the potential for realizing any hopes we might have for reforming intelligence and espionage.

Examining espionage, counterintelligence, and covert action, the book argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the information revolution is increasing the power of states relative to non-state actors and threatening privacy more than secrecy. Arguing that intelligence organizations may be taken as the paradigmatic organizations of the information age, author David Tucker shows the limits of information gathering and analysis even in these organizations, where failures at self-knowledge point to broader limits on human knowledge―even in our supposed age of transparency. He argues that, in this complex context, both intuitive judgment and morality remain as important as ever and undervalued by those arguing for the transformative effects of information.

This book will challenge what we think we know about the power of information and the state, and about the likely twenty-first century fate of secrecy and privacy.

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    252 pages
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    English
  3. Publication date
    August 20, 2014
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0804792658
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0804792653
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  • Dr. Clayton Harold Walker
    5.0 out of 5 stars I just wrote a review. The machine states that ...
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    This is not a review! It is written to the editors of the reviews to motivate them to find the review I sent and replace this with my review. This is a message to the people who manage the reviews to find the review I wrote and put it in here. "I just wrote a review. The machine states that I wrote one; that two have been written; and that they are shown with identifiers; but my review is not there. Please check your electronics system for my review and get it in there; or take my name off as having written a review. As it stands, it implies that I wrote one of those reviews; and that the reviews are only half baked. It is clear that my Five stars is not in the group. The FACT of intelligence knowledge being severely and extremely controlled seems to be missing in the two half valued writings; who are apparently using academic rather than intelligence standards in evaluating the knowledge released and/or revealed by David Tucker."
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  • Retired Reader
    2.0 out of 5 stars Half-Baked Intelligence
    Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2015
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    The author of this book, David Tucker, appears to be one of those folks whose careers have often put them on the fringes of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), but who have only superficially been involved in any aspect of intelligence production. Tucker compounds this deficiency by an unwillingness to either research or reflect seriously on his chosen subject. The goal of this book presumably is to demonstrate the dynamic relationships between intelligence, the power of nation states, and the so-called information age. Because Tucker is unwilling to really think through what he means by these terms, the book utterly fails to achieve this goal.

    Apparently the author does not feel it is necessary to distinguish intelligence information (i.e. evaluated and authenticated information) from unprocessed information. Nor is he particularly enlightening on why the dawn of the Information Age means the “end of intelligence.” More importantly he dose not distinguish between tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence nor does he appear to understand the various role intelligence has (or can have) in support of military operations, policy formulation, and high level decision making. Yet if he is concerned with the relationship of intelligence to “state power” it is important for him to identify what sort of intelligence can impact on the nation state. Although he devotes an entire chapter to counter-intelligence it is obvious that he has a very narrow and inaccurate understanding of counter-intelligence and no understanding at all of the role that intelligence and cyber security can have in enabling counter-intelligence operations. In the area of human intelligence (espionage), a central focus of this book, he seems to have little or no understanding of any aspect of it. In short this book offers a misleading and ill-considered discussion that fails completely to understand the relationship of intelligence with state power in the 21st Century (aka “The Information Age”).
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