Intelligence for an Age of Terror

by Gregory F. Treverton

Book Overview

During the Cold War, U.S. intelligence was concerned primarily with states; non-state actors like terrorists were secondary. Now the priorities are reversed. And the challenge is enormous. States had an address, and they were hierarchical and bureaucratic. They thus came with some "story." Terrorists do not. States were "over there," but terrorists are there and here. They thus put pressure on intelligence at home, not just abroad. They also force...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107615666
• ISBN13: 9781107615663
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"