Espionage and secret services Books

In Chuck Howe's Using Industry Analysis for Strategic Intelligence: Capabilities and Strategic Intent, the author argues that the Intelligence Community should evaluate globalization as a strategic factor affecting interdependencies between nations. He...

In 2014, the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at National Defense University published a paper on the future of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).1 It projected WMD-relevant geopolitical and technological trends and made judgments as...

2024 International Book Awards (IBA) Winner in Biography2024 National Indie Excellence Awards (NIEA) Winner in Biography and Finalist in United States History 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Montaigne Medal Finalist (awarded to the most...

"I should say that one of the inducements to making these inquiries into personal identification has been to discover independent features suitable for hereditary investigation."-Sir Francis Galton, "Personal Identification and Description" (1889)In...

"The Cold War for Information Technology is a captivating new book that uncovers a little-known but vital battle to gain control over IT development that took place in the final two decades of the 20th century. As you might expect, intelligence agencies...

For more than half a century, Big Safari-modified aircraft have performed dangerous and essential missions to collect intelligence, conduct surveillance and reconnaissance, and engage in special operations missions around the globe in the interest of...

In this well-researched technical monograph, the mysterious domain of "Secret Police" is explained. Authored by an authority in the field, Dr. Henry Prunckun's work examines the historical, philosophical, and legal foundations of secret policing,...

"A captivating book rooted in first-rate research." -- New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestseller -- Espionage categoryFor the first time, once-secret government records and interviews tell the full story of the thousands of...

25 Teorías de la Conspiración Explicadas en 6 Puntos: 1 - Qué representa cada teoría | 2 - Cuál es su origen3 - Niveles de popularidad | 4 - Similitudes con otras teorías5 - Argumentos en contra y a favor | 6 - Resumen de la teoríaDescubra 25 teorías de...

The book relates to understanding the growing importance of aerospace power in modern warfare, including integration of air and space which has truly become the new theatre of war. The unifying space dimension will remain the single most important source...

“As the nation that developed the Internet, the world expects us to ensure that the digital revolution works as a tool for individual empowerment, not government control.”  —President Barack Obama, Speech on NSA Reforms, January...

"Bill Holstein nails it. This is exactly the right book at the right time. Holstein knows because he has spent decades observing events closely around the world and interpreting them especially in terms of what they mean for real people in America. His...

Updated second edition published by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. Getting To Know the President by John Helgerson makes a singular contribution to the literature of intelligence by describing this important process of information...

A decade before Candidate Donald Trump announced his newly acquired obsession with building a wall on the US-Mexico border, investigative journalist Juan B. Botero denounced Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo to the House Ethics Committee because of his...

Petho-Kiss and Gunaratna understand the nature of the threat posed by the far right because of their findings and they propose effective provisions and mechanisms for detecting and countering it.

The unsolved body in the tree mystery from Worcestershire in 1943 - detailed research into all the people involved in the mystery or living in the vicinity at the time.

This collection, comprising key works by James J. Wirtz, explains how different threat perceptions can lead to strategic surprise attack, intelligence failure and the failure of deterrence.This volume adopts a strategist's view of the issue of surprise...

Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective, this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the...

In 1979, Brett Douglas was a twenty-eight-year-old US Marine Corps veteran working as a commercial tuna fisherman in California. That year, a young man named Bruce Perlowin came looking for professional seamen and found a few, including the author. The...

A true "cold case" involving a cast of characters on a small Southern college campus where a coed was murdered fifteen years ago. In a complex "who-dun-it" fashion, the murderer is finally revealed in this book.

This book examines security cooperation between Western states.

This book examines India's foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century.

This book examines new and challenging political aspects of cyber security and presents it as an issue defined by socio-technological uncertainty and political fragmentation.

This book examines terrorist and insurgent organisations and seeks to understand how such groups persist for so long, while introducing a new strategic doctrine for countering these organisations.

As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H. Richardson begins to unravel a life filled with drama and secrecy. John Sr. was a CIA "chief of station" on some of the hottest assignments of the Cold War, from the back alleys of...

The science of espionage has a long history of evolution and probably it originated ever since the emergence of state as the supreme form of governance in clan societies. The science, in course of emergence of larger states achieved high level of...

The edited volume examines contemporary intelligence and tradecraft in Africa.

On the evening of May 16, 1937, the train doors opened at the Porte Doree station in the Paris Metro to reveal a dying woman slumped by a window, an eight-inch stiletto buried to its hilt in her neck. No one witnessed the crime, and the killer left...

  Taking Intelligence to the Next Level: Advanced Intelligence Analysis Methodologies Using Real-World Business, Crime, Military, and Terrorism Examples examines intelligence gathering and analysis and the significance of these programs. Coverage...

This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese AI in its various facets, based on primary Chinese-language sources.China's rise as an AI power is an event of importance to the world and a potential challenge to liberal democracies. Filling a gap...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork and original data, this book examines the political and security evolution of Tunisia’s national intelligence in the post-independence era. It investigates the sophistication of the intelligence complex under Bin ʿAlī...

"For nearly a decade Brett Velicovich was at the center of America's new warfare: using unmanned aerial vehicles--drones--to take down the world's deadliest terrorists across the globe. One of an elite handful in the entire military with the authority to...

Codenames were a vital feature of World War II, serving as mental shorthand for those in the know, and obscuring the issues for those who were not. Codenames were used from the highest level, in the planning of grand strategic moves affecting the conduct...

From the Iranian Revolution to secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11 to Iran's nuclear program and sanctions against it, Crist brings vital new depth to the understanding of "the Iran problem"Nand what the future of this tense...

This book examines intelligence analysis in the digital age and demonstrates how intelligence has entered a new era.While intelligence is an ancient activity, the digital age is a relatively new phenomenon. This volume uses the concept of the "digital...

Intelligence Sharing Amongst the Unequals is only one of a few books focusing on security and defence studies. It is unique because it is the first ever book which documents and examines intelligence sharing among the US, Uganda, Sudan, and South Sudan...

The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency...

This book starts from the proposition that the field of intelligence lacks any systematic ethical review, and then develops a framework based on the notion of harm and the establishment of Just Intelligence Principles. As the professional practice of...

This book examines how key developments in international relations in recent years have affected intelligence agencies and their oversight.Since the turn of the millennium, intelligence agencies have been operating in a tense and rapidly changing...

This book, first published in 1956, analyses the Red Army's strategic planning for a war involving nuclear weapons - whereby the front line is thinned out to protect it from nuclear attack and replaced by large-scale offensive operations in NATO's rear...