Intelligence in an Insecure World, 3rd Ed.

358 Pages·2018·3.921 MB·English

by  Peter Gill, Mark Phythian

Contents
Cover
Copyright
Preface to the Third Edition
Abbreviations
1 What Is Intelligence?
Towards a Definition of Intelligence
The Evolution of Intelligence
Organizing Our Thinking about Intelligence: Beyond the
Intelligence Cycle
The Nature of Intelligence Studies
Conclusion
Notes
2 How Do We Understand Intelligence?
Introduction
Critical Realism
The Critique of Positivism and Challenge of Postmodernism
Intelligence as Surveillance: Knowledge and Power
Explaining Intelligence
Levels of Surveillance
Conclusion: A Map for Theorizing and Researching Intelligence
Notes
3 Who Does Intelligence?
Introduction: Security Intelligence Networks
State Sector
Corporate Sector
Non-State Sovereignty Sector
Intelligence Networks
Making Security Intelligence Networks Work
Conclusion
Notes
4 How Do They Gather Information?
Introduction
OSINT: Open Source Intelligence
IMINT: Imagery Intelligence
HUMINT: Human Intelligence
SIGINT: Signals Intelligence
Conclusion
Notes
5 How Is Information Turned into Intelligence?
Introduction
Analysis
Dissemination: Security versus Sharing
Conclusion
Notes
6 What Do They Do with Intelligence?
Introduction
When Intelligence Becomes Action: The Intensification of
Surveillance
Intelligence and Military Action
Policing and Covert Action
Intelligence Action in the Cyber Realm
Assassination
Use of Armed Drones
Conclusion
Notes
7 Why Does Intelligence Fail?
Introduction
The Limits of Intelligence
Approaches to Identifying the Causes of Intelligence Failure
The Policymaker–Intelligence Interface as a Site of Intelligence
Failure
Politicization of Intelligence
The 9/11 Commission Report: Explaining Intelligence Failure?
The Iraq WMD Failure
Terrorist Attacks and Intelligence Failure
Conclusion
Notes
8 How Democratic Can Intelligence Be?
Introduction
Defining Control and Oversight
The Legal and Ethical Bases for Democratic Control and Oversight
Organizing Oversight, Internally and Externally
Extra-parliamentary Oversight
Ad Hoc Inquiries
Media and Civil Society
The Challenge of Controlling and Overseeing Intelligence
Networks
Conclusion
Notes
9 Intelligence for a More Secure World?
Notes
Selected Further Reading
Journals
Books
Index
End User License Agreement
Figures
1.1 The intelligence cycle
1.2 Five eyes slide: new collection posture
1.3 The intelligence web
4.1 Sources of information (the ‘ints’)
4.2 PRISM collection details
4.3 NSA computer network exploitation
5.1 Estimating probability and levels of confidence
6.1 The intensification of surveillance
7.1 Betts’s sources of intelligence failure
Tables
2.1 Explaining intelligence
2.2 A map for theorizing and researching intelligence
Boxes
4.1 Illegals
4.2 Radio radicalization
4.3 Types of CNE/EI that might be used by GCHQ
4.4 From identification to action: the three stages of security and
intelligence work
5.1 The problem of warning
6.1 Intelligence community assessment: assessing Russian activities
and intentions in recent US elections
7.1 6 August 2001 PDB: ‘Bin Laden determined to strike US’
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Intelligence in an Insecure World
Third Edition
PETER GILL AND MARK PHYTHIAN
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Title: Intelligence in an insecure world / Peter Gill, Mark Phythian.Description: Third edition. |
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