Peste 4 milioane de titluri în engleză și alte limbi! Descoperă-ți noua poveste astăzi!

Reducing Uncertainty

Name: Reducing Uncertainty
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804775939
Price: 582.81 RON
Availability: InStock

Intelligence Analysis and National Security

Autor: Thomas Fingar

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Stanford University Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

Expediem în 9-15 zile

582.81 lei

The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and foreca...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Thomas Fingar

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

192

EAN

9780804775939

ISBN

0804775931

Enbook ID

04719115

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

431

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 22

Descriere completă

The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to the spread of disease. In other words, we spend a lot of money to anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and avoid mistakes. A substantial portion of what we spend--over $50 billion a year--goes to the US Intelligence Community. "Reducing Uncertainty" describes what Intelligence Community analysts do, how they do it, and how they are affected by the political context that shapes, uses, and sometimes abuses their output. In particular, it looks at why IC analysts pay more attention to threats than to opportunities, and why they appear to focus more on warning about the possibility of "bad things" happening than on providing the input necessary for increasing the likelihood of positive outcomes. The book is intended to increase public understanding of what IC analysts do, to elicit more relevant and constructive suggestions for improvement from outside the Intelligence Community, to stimulate innovation and collaboration among analysts at all grade levels in all agencies, and to provide a core resource for students of intelligence. The most valuable aspect of this book is the in-depth discussion of National Intelligence Estimates--what they are, what it means to say that they represent the "most authoritative judgments of the Intelligence Community," why and how they are important, and why they have such high political salience and symbolic importance. The final chapter lays out, from an insider's perspective, the story of the flawed Iraq WMD NIE and its impact on the subsequent Iran nuclear NIE--paying particular attention to the heightened political scrutiny the latter received in Congress following the Iraq NIE debacle.