National Intelligence

Historian Michael Warner addresses the birth of professional intelligence in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century and the subsequent rise of US intelligence during the Cold War. He brings this history up to the present day as intelligence agencies used the struggle against terrorism and the digital revolution to improve capabilities in the 2000s.

Advances in generating, collecting, processing, and storing data have enabled innovation in AI, allowing this technology to become ubiquitous in modern life and touch nearly every facet of daily activities, directly or indirectly. Besides the AI-enabled applications in smartphones and personal computers, applications of AI have streamlined logistics, accelerated scientific discovery, enabled more efficient design and manufacturing, and aided in detecting financial fraud.

This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world. Hacking ISIS will explain in graphic detail how ISIS produces religious cultism, recruits vulnerable young people of all religions and nationalities and disseminates their brutal social media to the world. More, the book will map out the cyberspace-level tactics on how ISIS spreads its terrifying content, how it distributes tens of thousands of pieces of propaganda daily and is winning the battle in cyberspace and how to stop it in its tracks.

Years ago the CIA developed a powerful hypnosis-enhancing drug. Its existence is a closely guarded secret. Now the agency is being attacked by a fringe congressman who is rapidly amassing power and influence. Worse yet, some of the drug is missing. Five thousand miles away in Hawaii, accident survivors Bill and Cheryl Parker are living idyllic, isolated lives on the island of Molokai. But after an earthquake shatters their bliss, and an investigative reporter makes disturbing inquiries, they begin to question who they really are. Their search for the truth propels them into the crosshairs ...

In Israel and the Cyber Threat, Charles D. ("Chuck") Freilich, Matthew S. Cohen, and Gabi Siboni provide a detailed and comprehensive study of Israel's cyber strategy, tracing it from its origins to the present.

It is no secret that the 2016 United States presidential election was one of the closest, nastiest, and most contentious in the history of the country. The narrow victory of Donald J. Trump was an unprecedented upset, to say the least. The Republic Party winnowed a field of 17 candidates down to a real estate developer and reality television star who appealed to large segment of the public that felt ignored by the established powers.

During the Cold War, the political leadership of the Soviet Union avidly sought intelligence about its main adversary, the United States. Although effective on an operational level, Soviet leaders and their intelligence chiefs fell short when it came to analyzing intelligence. There were, however, important changes over time. Ultimately the views of an enlightened Soviet leader, Gorbachev, trumped the ideological blinders of his predecessors and the intelligence service's dedication to an endless duel.

In Spy Watching, Loch K. Johnson explores the United States' travails in its efforts to maintain effective accountability over its spy services.

In literature and film, the spy chief is an all-knowing, all-powerful figure who masterfully moves spies into action like pieces on a chessboard. How close to reality is that depiction, and what does it really take to be an effective leader in the world of intelligence? This first volume of Spy Chiefs broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national security in the US and UK from the early 1940s to the present.

Drawing on declassified documents, interviews with intelligence veterans and policymakers, and other sources, The Image of the Enemy examines how seven countries analyzed and used intelligence to understand their main adversary. The cases in the book include the Soviet Union's analysis of the United States (and vice versa), East Germany's analysis of West Germany (and vice versa), British intelligence in the early years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Israeli intelligence about the Palestinians, and more.

Before the cyber age, foreign interference in Western democratic politics played out in a comparatively narrow arena. The explosive expansion of cyberspace has radically altered this situation. The hacking activities of Russian military agents in the 2016 US presidential election and other major incidents demonstrate the magnitude of the contemporary problem. This is a struggle that the West is losing. Lucas Kello delves into recent history to reveal the failures of present policy in preventing and punishing cyberattacks and other forms of technological aggression.

The Snake implant is considered the most sophisticated cyber espionage tool designed and used by Center 16 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) for long-term intelligence collection on sensitive targets. To conduct operations using this tool, the FSB created a covert peer-to-peer (P2P) network of numerous Snake-infected computers worldwide.

Surveillance permeates every aspect of our lives today. Every click on the keyboard, every call, text or email, every purchase, every contact with a doctor or the police or a government department, each time you walk under a video camera or pass through a security check, and in many other ways, you are recorded, identified, traced, and tracked. This Very Short Introduction investigates how surveillance makes people visible, how it grew to its present size and prevalence, how it came to rely on technologies of data-handling, and how it developed its own cultural features.

In American Coup, William Arkin reveals the desk-bound takeover of the highest reaches of government by a coterie of "grey men" of the national security establishment. Operating between the lines of the Constitution this powerful and unelected group fights to save the nation from "terror" and weapons of mass destruction while at the same time modifying and undermining the very essence of the country.

The protection of cyberspace has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations. Future wars are likely to be carried out, in part or perhaps entirely, in cyberspace. It might therefore seem obvious that maneuvering in cyberspace is like maneuvering in other media, but nothing would be more misleading. Cyberspace has its own laws.

In The Rising Clamor: The American Press, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Cold War, David P. Hadley explores the relationships that developed between the CIA and the press, its evolution over time, and its practical impact from the creation of the CIA to the first major congressional investigations of its activities in 1975-1976 by the Church and Pike Committees.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our country and our world. From how citizens navigate their daily lives to how researchers drive discoveries in the lab to how manufacturers build products, AI is giving rise to new capabilities. New AI and AI-driven discoveries and capabilities hold the potential to drive practical solutions to address critical global challenges such as food production, climate change, poverty, and cancer. We have only started to scratch the surface of what is possible and cannot afford to miss out on seizing the opportunity for leveraging AI to serve the public good.

Le rapport tant attendu sur le monde d'après ! À chaque élection présidentielle américaine, le National Intelligence Council (NIC), c'est-à-dire le cerveau prospectif de la CIA, fournit un rapport au nouvel élu de la Maison-Blanche sur le monde du futur. Cette synthèse est construite à partir des analyses des meilleurs experts. Ce rapport 2021, qui envisage le monde de 2040, était très guetté dans le contexte éprouvant du Covid-19.

This is Book III of a war memoir trilogy that I have written for a particular audience, the Infantry Sergeant. If you’re neither a sergeant nor infantry, read on at your peril. I began writing this narrative in 2006, after I returned from my third war, Afghanistan, and had retired from the Texas Army National Guard.

Shadows of the Multiverse: Quantum Whispers 🌌 The boundaries of science, secrecy, and the cosmos are about to collide. In the cutting-edge labs of Q-Tech, Nolan Reyes, a brilliant quantum AI engineer, stands at the forefront of humanity’s next great leap. Tasked with perfecting Argus, a revolutionary artificial intelligence capable of tapping into the power of parallel dimensions, Nolan’s work promises to redefine what’s possible. But his discoveries reveal something far more chilling: anomalies in Argus’s data streams—signals that suggest Earth is not alone. 🚨 As global ...