Intelligence Power in Practice

Michael Herman, David Schaefer (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474499552 (ISBN)

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Showcases Michael Herman's critical reflections from his thirty-five years of intelligence experience to examine the past and present of British intelligence.

This volume draws on Herman’s professional experience and personal recollections to examine the past and present of British intelligence. In twenty-one chapters he offers an insider’s perspective on the Cold War intelligence contest against the Soviet Union and its continuing legacy today. This includes proposals for intelligence ethics and reform in the twenty-first century, and the declassified copy of his evidence to the 2004 Butler Review. Herman also discusses the role of personalities in the British intelligence community, producing sketches of Cold War contemporaries on the JIC and several Directors of GCHQ. The combination of operational experience and academic reflection makes this volume a unique contribution to intelligence scholarship.
Michael Herman (1929-2021) was the world’s leading intelligence practitioner-academic. Among his senior roles during a thirty-five year career in Her Majesty’s Civil Service, he was Secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee from 1972-75, and Head of several GCHQ Divisions in the 1970s-80s. After his professional retirement, he was a Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford and founding director of the Oxford Intelligence Group.

Michael Herman was an intelligence practitioner, and author of the acclaimed Intelligence Power in Peace and War (1996) among other works. Among his senior roles during a thirty-five year career in Her Majesty’s Civil Service, he was Secretary of the Joint Intelligence Committee from 1972-75, and Head of several GCHQ Divisions in the 1970s-80s. After his professional retirement, he was a Gwilym Gibbon Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford and founding director of the Oxford Intelligence Group. David Schaefer is a researcher in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Ormond College in the University of Melbourne, and a Research Associate at Asialink Diplomacy.

Foreword by Lord Butler

Preface

Part 1 Secrecy and Liberal Society

1. Profiles in Intelligence

2. Rush to Transparency

3. GCHQ De-unionisation

4. Intelligence and Ethical Foreign Policies

Part 2 The Cold War

5. Intelligence as Threats and Reassurance

6. What Difference Did It Make

7. The Intelligence War - Reflections on Sigint

8. National Requirements

9. Manual Morse and the Intelligence Gold Standard

10. Teufelsberg

Part 3 Organisation and Reform

11. 1945 Organisation

12. Post-Cold War Issues and Opportunities

13. Evidence to Butler

14. Joint Intelligence and Butler

15. Butler Reviewed

Part 4 Personalities in British Intelligence

16. Recruitment in 1945 and 'Peculiar Personal Characteristics'

17. Up from the Country

18. JIC 1972-75

19. GCHQ Directors

20. Harry Burke and Able Archer

21. A Special London Contribution

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Intelligence, Surveillance and Secret Warfare
Zusatzinfo	10 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9781474499552 / 9781474499552
Zustand	Neuware