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Transforming U.S. Intelligence 1st Edition

by Jennifer E Sims (Editor), Burton Gerber (Editor)
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The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather than on its bureaucratic arrangements. In fact, while the recent restructuring, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, may solve some problems, it has also created new ones. The authors of this volume agree that transforming policies and practices will be the most effective way to tackle future challenges facing the nation's security.

This volume's contributors, who have served in intelligence agencies, the Departments of State or Defense, and the staffs of congressional oversight committees, bring their experience as insiders to bear in thoughtful and thought-provoking essays that address what such an overhaul of the system will require. In the first section, contributors discuss twenty-first-century security challenges and how the intelligence community can successfully defend U.S. national interests. The second section focuses on new technologies and modified policies that can increase the effectiveness of intelligence gathering and analysis. Finally, contributors consider management procedures that ensure the implementation of enhanced capabilities in practice.

Transforming U.S. Intelligence supports the mandate of the new director of national intelligence by offering both careful analysis of existing strengths and weaknesses in U.S. intelligence and specific recommendations on how to fix its problems without harming its strengths. These recommendations, based on intimate knowledge of the way U.S. intelligence actually works, include suggestions for the creative mixing of technologies with new missions to bring about the transformation of U.S. intelligence without incurring unnecessary harm or expense. The goal is the creation of an intelligence community that can rapidly respond to developments in international politics, such as the emergence of nimble terrorist networks while reconciling national security requirements with the rights and liberties of American citizens.

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    August 24, 2005
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    6.98 x 0.78 x 9.92 inches
  8. Print length
    320 pages
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Customers find the book's intelligence content educational and useful, especially for those interested in intelligence. They appreciate the sections on technology, big data, and open-source intelligence. The writing quality is also praised as thoughtful and careful by readers.

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Customers find the book's intelligence content informative and useful. They appreciate the sections on technology, big data, and open-source intelligence. The book covers various aspects of US intelligence institutions, including a great collection of essays by leading experts. Overall, readers describe it as an educational yet general guide to the subject.

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  • z37
    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book about US intelligence services
    Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2020
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    Although a bit dated, nevertheless it provides an extraordinary amount of intel-info. Extremely well written & covering the many facets and components of US intelligence institutions. Very educational, especially for those interested on intelligence. I only hope, that by 2020, many of the issues have been addressed and resolved
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  • Justin S.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of policy recommendations; interesting for those in the field; tough for others
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2014
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    For those with an understanding of or great interest in the U.S. intelligence system this book offers a great collection of essays by a long list of intelligence experts on how improvements might be made. If you don't already have a solid understanding, however, you may struggle with understanding the full context as each essay is its own argument and there's not a building-up of an argument. I personally found the sections on technology and big data and open-source intelligence most useful. Some of the others that got deeply into systems I found a bit less useful.
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  • Debbie Anne
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016
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  • Retired Reader
    3.0 out of 5 stars Where's the Beef?
    Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2005
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    This book is precisely what is not needed at this time: a generic look at "transforming" intelligence by a group of intelligent and sincere individuals who have virtually no understanding of how intelligence is actually produced. The authors who collaborated on this book include many with experience in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) yet that experience scarcely extends to actually engaging in working level analysis and reporting, recruiting agents, interpreting fuzzy photographs or attempting to convert distorted signals into readable data. Burton Gerber, one of the authors is a retired CIA operations officer it is true, but my guess is that was a long time ago in a galaxy far away. If the IC is to be truly transformed, someone had better start considering such difficult problems as the culture of the workforce, the actual processes by which raw data is transformed into intelligence and the antiquated organizational structures and governance of U.S. intelligence agencies. So far no one either in the IC or at its fringes (with the exception of General Odom U.S.A. retired in a rather flawed book "Fixing Intelligence") have made any effort to even consider these problems except in the most general way. Creating an impotent Director of Central Intelligence and changing the faces managing the agencies of the IC is not going to solve anything.

    Saying this book is not needed is not to say it is without value. Its contributing authors are thoughtful and careful writers. They are scholars or senior intelligence experts who clearly have thought long and hard about the issues presented the book. For your average private citizen or congressman who knows little about the IC this is a very good if very general book. Unfortunately what is needed is a detailed analysis of the operational working levels of the IC and the culture that guides it. I don't think the authors of this book are the ones to do that.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Transforming Intelligence
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    A good collection on intelligence community topics. It has a variety input since it is a collection of writings from vaious authors.
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