Informing Statecraft

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Simon and Schuster, Jun 7, 2002 - Business & Economics - 512 pages
Analyzing the American intelligence network, senior research fellow at Hoover Institution Angelo Codevilla concludes that American intelligence efforts are desperately outdated in this “masterful exploration of the field” (Publishers Weekly).

Based on years of research and experience working within the American intelligence network, Angelo Codevilla argues that the intelligence efforts of the nation’s government are outgrown and inconclusive.

Suggesting that the evolution of American intelligence since the Vietnam War and World War II has been erratic and unplanned, Codevilla presents new efforts to be made within the intelligence network that would lead to strategized and effective methods of information gathering.

Connecting the lines between a need for successful intelligence efforts and a strong government, Informing Statecraft warns of how intelligence failures of the past will eventually pale in comparison to the malaise that plagued American intelligence in the twentieth century.
 

Contents

A New World Disorder
48
PART II
73
Fragmented Counterspying
130
Getting It Wrong
187
Sorcerers Apprentices
240
Intelligence and the Gulf War
275
Reform
285
Access to Secrets
299
Quality Control
325
Friction
354
Getting It Right
387
Intelligence Talent and Lessons
440
BIBLIOGRAPHY
464
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Angelo Codevilla was Professor of International Relations at Boston University, a foreign service officer, and a staff member of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate. He wrote multiple books and articles that appeared in many publications, including Commentary, Foreign Affairs, and National Review. Codevilla passed away in September 2021.

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