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Bombs, Bugs, Drugs, and Thugs: Intelligence and America's Quest for Security
by Loch K Johnson
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ISBN: 081474253x Foreword: Johnson, Loch K. Author: Johnson, Loch K. Publisher: New York University Press Subject: Intelligence service Subject: United states Subject: International Security Subject: Terrorism Subject: General Subject: Political Freedom & Security - International Secur Subject: Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. Series: Fast Track Books Series Volume: 70-0079 Publication Date: 2002 Binding: Paperback Language: English Illustrations: Yes Pages: xxix, 298 p. Dimensions: 900x608x83 97
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Publisher Comments:
Recent years have seen numerous books about the looming threat posed to Western society by biological and chemical terrorism, by narcoterrorists, and by the unpredictable leaders of rogue nations. Some of these works have been alarmist. Some have been sensible and measured. But none has been by Loch Johnson.
Johnson, author of the acclaimed Secret Agencies and "an experienced overseer of intelligence" (Foreign Affairs), here examines the present state and future challenges of American strategic intelligence. Written in his trademark style--dubbed "highly readable" by Publishers Weekly â and drawing on dozens of personal interviews and contacts, Johnson takes advantage of his insider access to explore how America today aspires to achieve nothing less than "global transparency," ferreting out information on potential dangers in every corner of the world.
And yet the American security establishment, for all its formidable resources, technology, and networks, currently remains a loose federation of individual fortresses, rather than a well integrated "community" of agencies working together to provide the President with accurate information on foreign threats and opportunities. Intelligence failure, like the misidentified Chinese embassy in Belgrade accidentally bombed by a NATO pilot, is the inevitable outcome when the nation's thirteen secret agencies steadfastly resist the need for central coordination.
Ranging widely and boldly over such controversial topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations (which Johnson believes should be expanded) and whether assassination should be a part of America's foreign policy (an option he rejects for fear that the U.S. would then be cast not only as global policeman but also as global godfather), Loch K. Johnson here maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence.
Review:
"An eye-opening account of our intelligence establishment." Library Journal
Review:
"An outstanding book, clearly the best recent, up-to-date survey of the American intelligence community, ranking with the top half-dozen ever." H. Bradford Westerfield, Yale University
About the Author:
Author of numerous books, Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor at the University of Georgia.
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