Introduction to Intelligence Studies

by Carl J. Jensen III, David H. McElreath, Melissa Graves

Provides a working definition of intelligence and a history of intelligence as practiced in the United States Offers past and recent case examples of intelligence successes, failures, and lessons learnedCovers intelligence writing, military intelligence, the intelligence cycle, and laws governing intelligenceIncludes the latest developments in Homeland Security as related to Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the intelligence community as a wholeExamines collections, analysis, counterintelligence, and covert operationsNew edition has been updated and includes material on new issues such WikiLeaks, ISIS, the Senate's report on CIA use of torture, the Ebola epidemic, and Russia's incursion into Ukraine

395 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 22, 2017

Reviews

[Erin Robertson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for my Supporting National Security class. As far as textbooks go, it really isn't that bad. It's very informative and well-written, I also liked reading the sections that detail certain examples of various things we've read about in the chapter. Some of the information was a bit outdated but it's also not a new textbook but that's understandable. At the end of the day, it's a textbook, it's not exceptional reading material but it's informative and the content is relatively interesting so it gets a 3 star rating from me.