Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence (Intelligence & National Security Library)

by Abram N . Shulsky (Author), Gary Schmitt (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $5.84

  Revised after the breakup of the Soviet Union with 40 percent new material, this is the first comprehensive overview of the elements of intelligence, with more than 12,000 in print.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  A thoroughly updated revision of the first comprehensive overview of intelligence designed for both the student and the general reader, Silent Warfare is an insider's guide to a shadowy, often misunderstood world. Leading intelligence scholars Abram N. Shulsky and Gary J. Schmitt clearly explain such topics as the principles of collection, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action, and their interrelationship with policymakers and democratic values. This new edition takes account of the expanding literature in the field of intelligence and deals with the consequences for intelligence of vast recent changes in telecommunication and computer technology the new information age. It also reflects the world's strategic changes since the end of the Cold War. This landmark book provides a valuable framework for understanding today's headlines, as well as the many developments likely to come in the real world of the spy.