During the Cold War, U.S. intelligence was concerned primarily with states; non-state actors like terrorists were secondary. Now the priorities are reversed and the challenge is enormous. States had an address, and they were hierarchical and bureaucratic. They thus came with some 'story'. Terrorists do not. States were 'over there', but terrorists are there and here. They thus put pressure on intelligence at home, not just abroad. The strength of this book is that it underscores the extent of the change and ranges broadly across data collection and analysis, foreign and domestic, as well as presenting the issues of value that arise as new targets require collecting more information at home.
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Weight: 460g
Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 05 Sep 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781107615663
About Gregory F. Treverton
Gregory F. Treverton is director of the RAND Corporation's Center for Global Risk and Security. Earlier he directed RAND's Intelligence Policy Center and its International Security and Defense Policy Center and was associate dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His recent work has focused on terrorism intelligence and law enforcement with a special interest in new forms of public-private partnership. Dr Treverton has served in government for the first Senate Select Committee on Intelligence handling Europe for the National Security Council (NSC); most recently he served as vice chair of the National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs). He holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton University and a master's degree in public policy and a Ph.D. in economics and politics both from Harvard University. His books include Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information (Cambridge University Press 2001) New Challenges New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking (2003) and National Intelligence Systems: Current Research and Future Prospects (Cambridge University Press 2009 coedited with Wilhelm Agrell).