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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction |
Richelson. Chapter 1. Johnson, Loch K. "Bricks and Mortar for a Theory of Intelligence." Comparative Strategy 22, no. 1 (2003): 1-28. Fry, Michael G., and Miles Hochstein. "Epistemic Communities: Intelligence Studies and International Relations." In Espionage: Past, Present, and Future? Edited by Wesley K. Wark. London, UK: Frank Cass, 1994, pp. 14-28. ISBN: 9780714640990. Gaddis, John Lewis. "Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War History." Chapter 5 in The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications, Reconsiderations, Provocations. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 87-104. ISBN: 9780195085518. |
| 2 | Origins, Structure, and Functions of the Intelligence Community |
Treverton. Chapter 1. Richelson. Chapters 2, 3, and 6. (Skim) Andrew, Christopher M. Chapter 5 in For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995, pp. 149-198. ISBN: 9780060170370. 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. Levite, Ariel. Intelligence and Strategic Surprises. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1987, pp. 1-38. ISBN: 9780231063746. 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. Ellis, Jason D., and Geoffrey D. Kiefer. Chapter 4 in Combating Proliferation: Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, pp. 87-108. ISBN: 9780801879586. |
| 7 | Military Intelligence |
Treverton. Chapter 3. Richelson. Chapters 4, and 5. (Skim) Handel, Michael I. "Leaders in Intelligence." In Leaders and Intelligence. London, UK: Frank Cass, 1989, pp. 3-39. ISBN: 9780714640594. Keegan, John. Introduction, Chapter 1, and Conclusion in Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to al Qaeda. New York, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2003, pp. 3-25, and 321-352. ISBN: 9780375400537. Krepinevich, Andrew. "Emerging Threats, Revolutionary Capabilities, and Military Transformation." Testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. March 5, 1999. May, Ernest. Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France. 1st ed. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2000, pp. 240-268. ISBN: 9780809089062. MacDonald, Charles B. A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. New York, NY: Perennial, 1997, pp. 17-79. ISBN: 9780688151577. 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 |
Beesly, Patrick. Introduction and Chapters 1, 6, 7, 10, and 11 in Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1945. London, UK: Greenhill Books, 2000. ISBN: 9781853673986. Cohen, Eliot, and John Gooch. Chapter 4 in Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War, 1990. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1990, pp. 59-94. ISBN: 9780029060605. |
| 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. Wirtz, James. "Conclusion: Explaining the Failure of Intelligence." In The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991, pp. 252-275. ISBN: 9780801424861. 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. Andrew, Christopher M. Chapter 5 in For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995, pp. 199-212, and 250-276. ISBN: 9780060170370. Shulsky, Adam. Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2002, Chapter 4, pp. 83-109. ISBN: 9781574883459. Berkowitz, Bruce D., and Allan E. Goodman. "The Logic of Covert Action." The National Interest 51 (Spring 1998): 38-46. Treverton, Gregory F. "Controlling Covert Action." In Controlling Intelligence. Edited by Glenn P. Hastedt. London, UK: Frank Cass, 1991, pp. 113-133. ISBN: 9780714633947. Godson, Roy. Chapter 4 in Dirty Tricks and Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2000, pp. 120-183. ISBN: 9780765806994. 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 |
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Chapters 3, 4, 6, 8, and 11 in The 9/11 Commission Report. New York, NY: Norton, 2004. ISBN: 9780393326710. 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 |
Ellis, Jason D., and Geoffrey D. Kiefer. Chapters 2, 3, and 5 in Combating Proliferation: Strategic Intelligence and Security Policy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780801879586. 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. Andrew, Christopher M. Chapter 5 in For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush. 1st ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1995, pp. 370-374, 389-390, and 397-424. ISBN: 9780060170370. 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.
Jeffrey-Jones, Rhodri. Introduction, Chapter 13, and Conclusion in The CIA and American Democracy. 2nd ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780300077377. ———. Chapters 12-14 in Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780300101591. |
| 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. Wilson, James Q. "Thinking About Reorganization." In U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads: Agendas for Reform. Edited by Roy Godson, Ernest R. May, and Gary Schmitt. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 1995. ISBN: 9780028811222. 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. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Chapter 13 in The 9/11 Commission Report. New York, NY: Norton, 2004. ISBN: 9780393326710. Cordesman, Anthony. "The 9/11 Commission Report: Strengths and Weaknesses." Center for Strategic and International Studies, August 2, 2004. |
