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I might have leaned toward four stars on this book, which is certainly a useful contribution, but it falls into the second tier for being a clear hit job---and shallow to boot. Gaps in the author's reading (or writing) appeared from the very beginning. Lost first star there. He defines strategic intelligence as focused on threats and the use of force. Despite his mention of Adda Bozeman, he does not seem to have understood that the heart of strategic intelligence is deep and sustained study and understanding of foreign cultures, histories, languages, genealogies, and ties that bind--financial, religious, tribal, ethnic, etc. Lost second star here. There are ten high-level threats, twelve remediation policies, and eight global challengers, and all 30 of these factors must be studied as a whole and in relation, in the present, near, and far term. Anything less is not strategic intelligence. I am troubled by the author's rather black and white bias in tarring CIA with all the wrongs and exempting the policy-makers, and especially Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith, for their many errors and omissions as well as 25 specific high crimes and misdemeanors committed by Cheney a

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Author

Richard L. Russell

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511289552

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, True Crime, Social Science