Required Texts
Lowenthal, Mark M. Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781568027593.
Treverton, Gregory. Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information. Cambridge, UK, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521580960.
Richelson, Jeffrey T. The U.S. Intelligence Community. 4th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780813368931.
Readings by Session
Lec # | Topics | readings |
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1 | Introduction |
Richelson. Chapter 1. Johnson, Loch K. "Bricks and Mortar for a Theory of Intelligence." Comparative Strategy 22, no. 1 (2003): 1-28.
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2 | Origins, Structure, and Functions of the Intelligence Community |
Treverton. Chapter 1. Richelson. Chapters 2, 3, and 6. (Skim)
May, Ernest R. "Intelligence: Backing into the Future." Foreign Affairs 71, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 63-72. Kindsvater, Larry C. "A Senior Officer's Perspective: The Need to Reorganize the Intelligence Community." Studies in Intelligence 47, no. 1 (2003): 33-37. |
3 | Collection |
Treverton. Chapter 5. Richelson. Chapters 7-12. (Skim) Richelson, Jeffrey T. "The Satellite Gap." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 59, no. 1 (January/February 2003): 48-54. Steele, Robert David. "Private Enterprise Intelligence: Its Potential Contribution to National Security." Intelligence and National Security 10, no. 4 (October 1995): 212-228. Fairchild, Brian P. Statement before the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress. May 20, 1998. |
4 | Analysis |
Treverton. Chapter 4. Richelson. Chapter 14. (Skim) Hulnick, Arthur. "The Intelligence Producer-Policy Consumer Linkage: A Theoretical Approach." Intelligence and National Security 1, no. 1 (1986): 212-233. Lefebvre, Stéphane. "A Look at Intelligence Analysis." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 17, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 231-264. Johnson, Loch K. "The CIA's Weakest Link." The Washington Monthly, July/August 2001, 9-14. Berkowitz, Bruce. "The DI and IT: Failing to Keep Up with the Information Revolution." Studies in Intelligence 47, no. 1 (2003): 67-74. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Pre-War Assessments on Iraq: Conclusions." pp. 1-30. Gormley, Dennis. "The Limits of Intelligence: Iraq's Lessons." Survival 46, no. 3 (Autumn 2004): 7-28. |
5 | Intelligence and National Policy |
Treverton. Chapter 6. Davis, Jack. "The Kent-Kendall Debate of 1949." Studies in Intelligence 36, no. 5 (Summer 1991): pp. 91-103. Harkabi, Yehoshafat. "The Intelligence-Policymaker Tangle." The Jerusalem Quarterly 30 (Winter 1984): 125-131. Hughes, Thomas L. The Fate of Facts in a World of Men: Foreign Policy and Intelligence-Making. Headline Series No. 233. New York, NY: Foreign Policy Association, 1976, pp. 36-52. Prados, John. "Iraq: A Necessary War?" Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 59, no. 3 (May/June 2003): 26-33. Barstow, David. "The Nuclear Card." New York Times, October 3, 2004, A1. Hersh, Seymour. "Selective Intelligence." The New Yorker, May 12, 2003. |
6 | Surprise Attack and Strategic Warning |
Betts, Richard. "Analysis, War, and Decision: Why Intelligence Failures are Inevitable." World Politics 31, no. 1 (1978): 61-89.
Davis, Jack. "Strategic Warning: If Surprise is Inevitable, What Role for Analysis?" Occasional Papers 2, no. 1 (January 2003). Washington, DC: Sherman Kent Center for Intelligence Analysis. Vickers, Robert, Jr. "The State of Warning Today." Defense Intelligence Journal 7, no. 2 (1998): 9-15.
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7 | Military Intelligence |
Treverton. Chapter 3. Richelson. Chapters 4, and 5. (Skim)
Krepinevich, Andrew. "Emerging Threats, Revolutionary Capabilities, and Military Transformation." Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. March 5, 1999.
Wirtz, James. "Intelligence to Please? The Order of Battle Controversy during the Vietnam War." Political Science Quarterly 106, no. 2 (1991): 239-263. |
8 | ASW Case Study |
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9 | Counterinsurgency |
Ford, Harold P. CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-68. Langley, VA: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1998, pp. 86-104.
Grau, Lester W. "Something Old, Something New: Guerrillas, Terrorists, and Intelligence Analysts." Military Review 84 (July-August 2004): 42-49. Metz, Steven. "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq." The Washington Quarterly 27, no. 1 (Winter 2003-04): 25-36. |
10 | Covert Action |
Richelson. Chapter 16.
Berkowitz, Bruce D., and Allan E. Goodman. "The Logic of Covert Action." The National Interest 51 (Spring 1998): 38-46.
National Security Archives. "El Salvador: War, Peace and Human Rights, 1980-1994." National Security Archives. "Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989." |
11 | Counterterrorism |
Herman, Michael. "Counter-Terrorism, Information Technology, and Intelligence Change." Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 40-58. Gunaratna, Rohan. "The Post-Madrid Face of Al Qaeda." The Washington Quarterly 27, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 91-100. Pillar, Paul. "Counterterrorism after Al Qaeda." The Washington Quarterly 27, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 101-113. Berkowitz, Bruce. "Intelligence and the War on Terrorism." Orbis 46, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 289-300. Kauppi, Mark V. "Counterterrorism Analysis 101." In Defense Intelligence Journal 1, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 39-53. |
12 | WMD and Nonproliferation |
Carter, Ashton B. "How to Counter WMD." Foreign Affairs 83, no. 5 (September/October 2004): 72-85. Treverton, Gregory F. "Intelligence: The Achilles Heel of the Bush Doctrine." Arms Control Today (July/August 2003): 9-11. "Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction." September 30th, 2004. ("Duelfer Report") |
13 | Intelligence and Democracy |
Richelson. Chapter 14.
Johnson, Loch K. "The CIA and the Question of Accountability." Intelligence and National Security 12, no. 1 (January 1997): 178-200. Knott, Stephen. "Executive Power and the Control of American Intelligence." Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 171-176. Johnson, Loch K. "Intelligence and the Challenge of Collaborative Government." Intelligence and National Security 13, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 177-182.
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14 | Future Threats and Intelligence Reform |
Treverton. Chapter 2. Best, Richard A., Jr. Proposals for Intelligence Reorganization, 1949-2004. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, July 29, 2004.
Davis, Lynn E., Gregory F. Treverton, Daniel Byman, Sara Daly, and William Rosenau. "Coordinating the War on Terrorism." RAND Occasional Paper, March 2004. OP-110-RC.
Cordesman, Anthony. "The 9/11 Commission Report: Strengths and Weaknesses." Center for Strategic and International Studies, August 2, 2004. |