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Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Ted Gup |
Clueless in Langley For two decades, the CIA has been making excuses for why it has failed to tackle terrorism. Can a spy agency rooted in the Cold War adapt to a changed world? |
Parameters Spring 2005 Saxby Chambliss |
We Have Not Correctly Framed the Debate on Intelligence Reform Over the last decade, our intelligence community has failed us. It wasn't able to penetrate the al Qaeda terrorist organization, and we paid a high price for that failure. |
Salon.com January 15, 2002 Laura Miller |
I was a cowboy for the CIA In a new memoir, tough-guy ex-field agent Robert Baer blasts wimpy pencil pushers and "politics" for keeping him from lassoing terrorist evildoers. He's right -- but you wouldn't want his kind in charge, either... |
AskMen.com Craig Mazin |
Top 10: Spy Agencies Many countries place great importance on the function of their intelligence/spy agencies. Intelligence failures can lead to terrible consequences, while successes can help countries avert unnecessary tragedies. Read on about the top 10 presently active spy agencies operating in the world today. |
Mother Jones Jan/Feb 2002 Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg |
Political Intelligence What happens when U.S. spies get the goods -- and the government won't listen? |
Wired October 2009 Stephen Lee |
Secret Ops, Domestic Spying OK -- As Long As Someone's Watching the Watchmen If the U.S. wants a successful intelligence agency, a certain amount of opacity is not only acceptable, it's necessary. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
The 9/11 Report: Details of the central event of our time It's not the sophisticated sensors, signal processing, satellite communications, and automation technology that wins the day in the end; it's the people who use the technology that make the difference. |
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Paul Magnusson |
The Smart Way To Fix Intelligence From Pearl Harbor to the terrorist attacks of September 11, the lesson keeps being repeated: A dollar spent on identifying the threat and preventing the attack can be worth far more than the millions spent safeguarding targets or the billions spent cleaning up the aftermath. |
Military History Quarterly Rose Mary Sheldon |
Toga & Dagger: Espionage in Ancient Rome Ancient Rome is remembered as one of the greatest military powers in history, its fame derived from the fearsome reputation of the empire's legionnaires. Lost in the telling, however, is the important role that espionage played in Rome's ascent to empire. |
AskMen.com |
Officials: CIA program targeted al-Qaida leaders A secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and then capture or kill al-Qaida leaders at close range. |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign... |
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Balking at Intel Reform Recommendations Pentagon officials are publicly questioning some of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. |
Reason June 2004 Bryan Alexander |
Out of the Info Loop Two books detail why information networks are crucial to modern warfare. |
Salon.com October 11, 2002 William M. Arkin |
Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
2005: The Year to Get a Handle on Terrorism Despite the compromise intelligence bill hammered out by Congress Dec. 7 and 8, the issue of coordinating this country's intelligence operations to tackle the issue of terrorism is far from resolved. |
Parameters Summer 2006 Arthur C. Winn |
The Future of US Intelligence The four books reviewed here address the future of US intelligence. However, each has a different focus: Countdown to Terror: The Top-Secret Information that Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America...and How the CIA has Ignored it by Curt Weldon... etc. |
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
Hollywood Fact Check: How Realistic Is Iraq War Film Green Zone? The military conspiracy-thriller Green Zone, a policy debate masquerading as an action movie, has a premise that invites scrutiny. |
Salon.com September 12, 2002 Robert Scheer |
Where's Osama? Sept. 11 could have been avoided if our intelligence agencies had done their job. |
Salon.com February 1, 2002 Jeff Stein |
Bin Laden's Olympic dreams Al-Qaida conducted "meticulous" surveillance of Salt Lake City, intelligence official says... |
Parameters Summer 2006 David W. Barno |
Challenges in Fighting a Global Insurgency Strategy in a global counterinsurgency requires a new level of thinking. A world of irregular threats and asymmetrical warfare demands that we Americans broaden our thinking beyond the norms of traditional military action once sufficient to win our wars. |
CIO August 4, 2008 Thomas Wailgum |
Inside the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 1 Al Tarasiuk, the CIA's CIO, is on a mission to modernize the agency's IT practices and connections to the intelligence community. It's just like any other IT-business alignment project, except that he has to get disparate departments to share data while supporting the White House's war on terror. |
Parameters Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
Parameters Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 Eamon Javers |
I Spy--For Capitalism Trident may be the only U.S. corporate-intelligence firm staffed by ex-KGB agents. |
National Defense November 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Intelligence: The Silver Bullet That Will Beat the Insurgency Until the military can come to grips with their intelligence problem in Iraq, it will continue to pay the price in the form of casualties, which have now reached nearly 2,000 dead and more than 14,000 wounded. |
Salon.com April 24, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
Deadly mistake Why did the Peruvian military shoot down a plane full of innocent people -- and why was the CIA involved? |
AskMen.com Michael Hirsch |
How To: Become A Secret Agent What guy hasn't actually wondered what it would be like to be a spy? Cruising around foreign countries, experiencing great adventures, hooking up with hot exotic babes, and, at the same time, helping out your country. |
Parameters Summer 2005 |
Commentary & Reply Intelligence Reform: More Needs to Be Done... Clausewitz and "How Has War Changed?"... etc. |
National Defense April 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Irregular Warfare Counter-insurgency in Iraq provides a template for fighting terrorism. |
PC World September 12, 2001 Dan Verton |
Next: Cyberterrorism? Security experts urge companies to guard against digital violence... |
Salon.com April 26, 2001 Fiona Morgan |
Does the U.S. spy too much? In the wake of the spy plane flap with China, experts propose international rules of order that would limit excessive espionage... |
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
A Domestic Counterterrorism Agency? It's a Numbers Game The question of whether to create a standalone domestic intelligence agency for counter-terrorism comes down to some cold, hard math, said The Rand Corp. in a recent study. |
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Advisory Board Says Military Must Define Role in Homeland Defense The Pentagon needs to improve and integrate its maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets with those of the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, CIA and FBI, according to a recent Defense Science Board study. |
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Intelligence Sharing: `Still a Battle' According to the National Counterterrorism Center, despite efforts since 9/11 to improve the gathering and analysis of government and military intelligence, getting agencies to pool information is still difficult. |
Information Today December 16, 2014 |
GPO Unveils Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) published the official digital and print versions of the "Report of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's [CIA] Detention and Interrogation Program." |
National Defense June 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Pentagon, Intelligence Community May Adopt Unified Space Strategy The United States spends billions of dollars to maintain its superiority in space. But lack of coordination between the Defense Department and the intelligence community is impeding efforts to efficiently manage these efforts. |
National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Outdated Army Training, Education Programs Get Revamped The U.S. Army is preparing to expand its intelligence workforce by as many as 15,000 officers during the next several years. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 Harry Goldstein |
Modeling Terrorists New simulators could help intelligence analysts think like the enemy. Whether the goal is to kill, deter, or negotiate with terrorists inside a computer or in the real world, ultimately agent-based models must answer one fundamental question: Do they help save lives? |
National Defense August 2007 Jessica Pearce |
Documentary Aims to Boost Coast Guard's Public Image As the Coast Guard reels from criticism of its mishandling of the Deepwater acquisitions program, one filmmaker hopes to counteract that negative publicity and bring some positive exposure back to the service. |
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Military 'Swimming In Sensors and Drowning in Data' Synthesizing all the collections of intelligence and disseminating them quickly is a challenge facing the military. |
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Reorganizes Training for Intelligence Units "The focus now is on getting soldiers used to identifying information that could be useful" to commanders in Afghanistan, says Army Maj. Eric Butler says during a recent teleconference with military bloggers. |
National Real Estate Investor February 3, 2004 Matt Valley |
Live from MBA/CREF 2004: General Tells Bankers That WMD Probe Is a Good Idea Gen. Tommy Franks told several hundred commercial mortgage bankers gathered here Monday for an annual convention that he welcomes the creation of an independent panel to examine prewar intelligence that concluded Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. |
National Defense October 2004 |
Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence. |
Salon.com December 20, 2001 Asla Aydintasbas |
The midnight ride of James Woolsey The former CIA director presents himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age, trying to waken America to its greatest threat -- Saddam Hussein. Should we be listening? |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Sally Adee |
Q&A With: IARPA Director Lisa Porter The first director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity discusses the differences between intelligence work and defense |
Parameters Summer 2008 Josh Kerbel |
Lost for Words: The Intelligence Community's Struggle to Find its Voice The intelligence community looked introspectively at itself and found self-identity issues staring back with unnerving intensity. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
FirstRain Announces New Customer Intelligence Solution FirstRain Performinator is a new subscription-based solution for easily adding strategically tuned customer intelligence to the daily lives of major accounts sales and marketing pros. |
Fast Company February 2005 Jena McGregor |
"The Imagination Was There" A former vice chair at Fannie Mae and the deputy attorney general under Janet Reno, Gorelick speaks about imagination, leadership, and the persistence of outdated mind-sets. |
National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Enjoy Your Money While You Can ... More than any other service, the Army has relied on Iraq-war funding to refurbish vehicles and acquire new hardware. However, if history is any guide, money only lasts as long as there are troops under fire. |
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Army Wants to Make `Every Soldier a Sensor' The new Every Soldier is a Sensor campaign encourages all soldiers to be aware of unusual surrounding and report all that they see. |