Intelligence - Mark M. Lowenthal

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Résumé :
Intelligence veteran Mark M. Lowenthal details how the intelligence community's history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. With straightforward and friendly prose, the book demystifies a complex process. The fifth edition highlights crucial developments and new challenges in the intelligence community, including:

- changes in the management of U.S. intelligence and the fourth DNI in five years;

- obama administration policies;

- developments in collection and analysis;

- the killing of bin Laden, Wikileaks, and updates on Russia, North Korea, China, and the Middle East;

- the ability to handle the shift from large-scale attacks to smaller, individual attempts;

- expanded coverage of foreign intelligence services and new coverage of intelligence in authoritarian regimes.

Biographie:

Mark M. Lowenthal has over thirty-nine years experience in U.S. intelligence. Dr. Lowenthal has served as the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council, staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, offi ce director and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), and Senior Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress. Dr. Lowenthal has written extensively on intelligence and national security issues, including five books and over 100 articles or studies. His book Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (6th ed., 2014) is the standard college and graduate school text on the topic. Dr. Lowenthal received his BA from Brooklyn College and his PhD in history from Harvard University. He is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University; he was an adjunct at Columbia University from 1993-2007. Currently, Dr. Lowenthal is President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, an education and consulting firm.