Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy - Softcover

Lowenthal, Mark M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506342566 ISBN 13: 9781506342566

Publisher: CQ Press, 2016

Synopsis

Mark M. Lowenthal’s trusted guide is the go-to resource for understanding how the intelligence community’s history, structure, procedures, and functions affect policy decisions. In this Seventh Edition, the author addresses cyber security and cyber intelligence throughout, expands on previous coverage of collection, comprehensively updates the chapters on nation states and transnational issues, and takes a look at various foreign intelligence services, both large and small.

"Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy remains the standard by which all other intelligence studies textbooks should be evaluated."  
–Greg Moore, Notre Dame College

About this title

About the Author

Mark M. Lowenthal has over forty-four years of experience in U.S. intelligence. He 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, office 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. He is now the President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, an education and consulting firm. Dr. Lowenthal received his BA from Brooklyn College and his PhD in history from Harvard University. He serves as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University; the National Intelligence University; Sciences Po (Paris); and the Norwegian Defence Intelligence School. He was an adjunct at Columbia University from 1993–2007.

Edition details

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1506342566
• ISBN 13: 9781506342566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624