Residual Uncertainty: Trying to Avoid Intelligence and Policy Mistakes in the Modern World / Edition 1

by Roy Pateman

Overview

Intelligence networks will forever be with us, and surely there will always be an appropriate role for the intelligence community. There are still important but hard to learn facts about targets—including the intentions and capabilities of rogue states and terrorists, the proliferation of unconventional weapons, and the disposition of potentially hostile military forces—that can only be identified, monitored, and measured through dedicated intelligence assets. In Residual Uncertainty, Roy Pateman gives numerous examples of where security has been breached, and networks, severely, even irreparably compromised and explains how the consequences of intelligence failure will surely be graver in the future. Pateman pinpoints the causes of failures in intelligence and policy in today's world and offers solutions that will drastically overhaul and improve our intelligence networks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761825920
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/16/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.18(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Roy Pateman is Emeritus Professor, UCLA and author of Chaos and Dancing Star: Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy (University Press of America, 2002).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 2 The Sins of Intelligence Chapter 3 Collecting, Analyzing, and Disseminating Data Chapter 4 Domestic Policy Constraints Chapter 5 Counterintelligence Chapter 6 Foreign Policy Chapter 7 Covert Action Chapter 8 Absolving the Sins of Intelligence Chapter 9 Appendix: Trade Talk Chapter 10 Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Index