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Title: The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption by Robert David Steele ISBN: 0971566119 Publisher: OSS International Press Pub. Date: 08 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8
Rating: 5
Summary: What to do to understand the revolution
Comment: Homeland secutity is based upon individual security brought about by individual understanding. It is not brought about by surrendering individual freedom so that government can make us secure. Steele explains why this is and what to do. Read this and Poole's Phantom Soldier and you'll understand of why most of the world's people hate America.
Rating: 5
Summary: Author Responds to Inaccurate Comment
Comment:
The reviewer who attributes my views on the roots of terrorism is surely a well-meaning person, but was much too quick to apply a personal bias on Chomsky to my own work. For the record, I was one of the first CIA Clandestine Service case officers assigned terrorism as a full-time target, hence have something of an operational understanding not available to the general public including Chomsky and the reviewer in question; 2) my educational work includes an undergraduate thesis on multinational corporate operations in the Third World; a first graduate thesis on the causes of revolution; and a second graduate thesis on strategic and tactical information management for national security (what can we and what do we know about the real world in order to make effective policy); 3) my life includes thirty years of residence overseas from which my direct observations on poverty, disease, and other conditions including corruption are applicable.
The comment about needing a filter and Chomsky should therefore be regarded as inaccurate. The book includes a 135 page annotated bibliography and a 25 page guide to web sites about corruption, cyber-advocacy, disease, education, environment, genocide, homeland defense, instability, intelligence, proliferation, slavery and human trafficking, starvation, terrorism, and transnational crime. In my view as the author, the previous review misrepresents the depth and breadth of the book in a grevious manner that requires my respectful response.
Rating: 4
Summary: Needs a filter
Comment: Steele argues that with the Cold War over, asymmetric threats should be the top priority for our military, for our intelligence agencies, and for any citizen concerned with security.
Fair enough. How would you reconstitute our security structure? He gets down to specifics in chapter 15, where he gives 26 rules for "the new craft of intelligence." These include an emphasis on translation of foreign sources, an emphasis on cultural intelligence (knowing your enemy), and gearing intelligence toward needs and customers vs. just following old habits and using the most ready capabilities.
This book rewards the reader with many interesting ideas to consider. But Steele badly needs a filter--I feel that there are way too many bad ideas in this book relative to the few nuggets. For example, his view of the causes of terrorism owes much to Noam Chomsky--a poor source for cultural intelligence. Furthermore, some (most?) of his proposals, such as instituting a draconian military draft, are not well thought out.
I think that there is reason to be concerned that we have not adjusted out thinking on military and intelligence matters to line up with current threats. But if this book is the best alternative, then we should be even more concerned.
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Title: On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World by Robert David Steele ISBN: 0971566100 Publisher: OSS International Press Pub. Date: 22 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Warning Solution : Intelligent Analysis in the Age of Information Overload by Kristan J. Wheaton ISBN: 0916159302 Publisher: AFCEA International Press Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy by Mark M. Lowenthal ISBN: 1568027591 Publisher: CQ Press Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: The U.S. Intelligence Community by Jeffrey T. Richelson ISBN: 0813368936 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism by Robert Baer ISBN: 140004684X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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