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Strategic Intelligence: for American World Policy

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This is a book about intelligence-not the intelligence that psychologies try to measure ina given human mind-but the kind a strategist must have to lay his plans and carry them out. Intelligence is the knowledge which our highly placed civilians and military men must have to safeguard the national welfare.
Although there is a good deal of understandable mystery about it, Intelligence is a simple and self-evident thing. As an activity it is the pursuit of a certain kind of knowledge; as a phenomenon it is the resultant knowledge. In a small way it is what we all do every day. When a housewife decides to increase her inventory, when a doctor diagnoses an ailment-when almost everyone decides upon a course of action-he usually does some preliminary intelligence work. Sometime the work is so informal and instinctive that he does not recognize it as intelligence-like finding the right garage man in the classified section of a telephone book. Sometimes it is formal and arduous and systematic as, for example, Arthur Koehler’s brilliant analysis of the ladder in the Lindbergh case. But no matter whether done instictivelly or with skillful conscious mental effort intelligence work is in essence nothing more than the search for the single best answer.
As will be discussing it in this book strategic intelligence is an extension of this search for useful knowledge. The extension is, however, an extension in several directions. To begin with, the knowledge which strategic intelligence must procedure deserves a more forbidding adjective than “useful.”
The plan of this book is simple. It is based upon the three separate and distinct things things that intelligence devotees usually mean when they use the word. In part I, I consider intelligence as a kind of knowledge (“What intelligence have you turned up on the situation in Colombia?”). In part II, I consider intelligence as the type of organization which procedures the knowledge (“Intelligence was able to give the operating people exactly what they wanted). Part III considers intelligence as the activity pursued by the intelligence organization (“The intelligence [work] behind that planning must have been intense”).

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Ketersediaan

B000442

355.3432 Ken s

Perpustakaan Hukum Daniel S. Lev

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355.3432 Ken

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New Jersey : Princeton University Press., 1949

Deskripsi Fisik

xxv, 226 hal. ; 21 cx 13 cm.

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English

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355.3432

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Kebijakan
intelijen

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