The Uses and Limits of Intelligence

by Walter Laqueur

Overview

This is a major survey and assessment of U.S. intelligence activities over the last forty-five years. It offers a systematic and authoritative evaluation of American intelligence-gathering machinery: how it has been used, misused, and on occasion, ignored. The book has been hailed as "a splendid work, reflective and penetrating" by James R. Schlesinger; while Zbigniew Brzezinski describes Laqueur as "a man who understands the relationships between history and the world of secret services." Henry S. Rowen noted that Laqueur "brings a rare degree of analytical power to this important subject."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560005940
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1993
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Walter Laqueur was director of the Wiener Library and the Institute of Contemporary History in London. He was founder and editor of the Journal of Contemporary History, and other publications. Laqueur taught at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, and Tel Aviv University. His last academic position was university professor at Georgetown.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: The Anatomy of Intelligence; 1: The Production of Intelligence; 2: Economic and Scientific Intelligence; 2: A History of Intelligence Performance; 3: Intelligence and Its Customers; 4: Early Experiences and Later-Day Trials; 5: The Missile Gap Controversy and the Cuban Missile Crisis; 6: Vietnam and the Case of the Missing Missiles; 3: Intelligence Abroad; 7: Secret Services in Open Societies; 8: The Antagonists: KGB and GRU; 4: Theories of Intelligence; 9: The Causes of Failure; 10: Craft or Science?; 5: Conclusion; 11: The Future of Intelligence