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  • Neutering the CIA

    Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences

    by John A Gentry ...
    Neutering the CIA is an insider look at how political bias at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has undermined its effectiveness both domestically and internationally. The central case study is the impact of the bias on the interaction between the CIA and the Trump Administration, although the origins of the problem link to Robert Gates becoming head of CIA's analysis directorate in 1982, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategic Warning Intelligence

    History, Challenges, and Prospects

    by John A. Gentry, Joseph S. Gordon ...
    John A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first century. Strategic warning—the process of long-range analysis to alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that require action—is a critical intelligence function. It also is frequently misunderstood and underappreciated. Gentry and Gordon draw on both their ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Diversity Dysfunction

    The DEI Threat to National Security Intelligence

    by Dr. John A. Gentry ...
    The diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda that has captured American institutions in recent years is controversial. While many applaud it on ethical grounds for allegedly redressing past discrimination, critics charge that DEI policies are unfair and damage institutions, including organizations critical to U.S. national security. Until now, however, there has been no systematic study of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • How Wars Are Won and Lost

    Vulnerability and Military Power

    by John A. Gentry ...
    Series series Praeger Security International
    This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucial—and embarrassing—question concerning the U.S. military: why the United States is so often stymied in military confrontations with seemingly weaker opponents, despite its "superpower" status.This fascinating book examines a question that continues to puzzle soldiers, statesmen, and scholars: why do major powers—including the ostensible superpower ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict

    Edited by Peter Andreas, Kelly M. Greenhill ...
    At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia. "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Censored 2017

    The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015-2016

    Edited by Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth, Project Censored ...
    The annual yearbook from Project Censored features the year's most underreported news stories, striving to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in corporate-controlled media outlets. Featuring the top 25 most underreported stories, as voted by scholars, journalists, and activists across the country and around the world, as well as chapters exploring timely issues from the previous ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Policing in the 21St Century

    Community Policing

    by Dr. Lee P. Brown ...
    Dr. Lee P. Brown, one of Americas most significant and respected law enforcement practitioners, has harnessed his thirty years of experiences in police work and authored Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing. Written for students, members of the police community, academicians, elected officials and members of the public, this work comes from the perspective of an individual who devoted ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Journalism After Snowden

    The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State

    Edited by Emily Bell, Taylor Owen ...
    Series series Columbia Journalism Review Books
    Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three journalists, as well as efforts to criminalize the act of being a whistleblower or source, signaled a new era in the coverage of national security reporting. The contributors to Journalism After ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • National Security Intelligence and Ethics

    Edited by Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan, Patrick F. Walsh ...
    Series series Studies in Intelligence
    This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis.Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, such ... Read more

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  • Abolishing State Violence

    A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages

    by Ray Acheson ...
    ABOLISHING STATE VIOLENCE is an urgent and accessible analysis of the key structures of state violence in our world today, and a clarion call to action for their abolition.Connecting movements for social justice with ideas for how activists can support and build on this analysis and strategy, this book shows that there are many mutually supportive abolition movements, each enhanced by a shared ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Whistleblowing for Change

    Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice

    Edited by Tatiana Bazzichelli ...
    The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contribute to new courses of action, digital tools, and contents? This urgent intervention based on the work ... Read more

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  • Spying Blind

    The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11

    by Amy B. Zegart ...
    In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable.Zegart argues that after the Cold War ended, the CIA and FBI failed to adapt to the rise of terrorism. She ... Read more

    $29.59 USD