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Volume 1: The Imperfect Intersection of National Security and
Public Safety explains homeland security as a struggle to meet new
national security threats with traditional public safety
practitioners. It offers a new solution that reaches beyond
training and equipment to change practitioner culture through
education. This first volume represents a major new contribution to
the literature by recognizing that homeland security is not based
on theories of nuclear response or countering terrorism, but on
making bureaucracy work. The next evolution in improving homeland
security is to analyze and evaluate various theories of
bureaucratic change against the national-level catastrophic threats
we are most likely to face. This synthesis provides the bridge
between volume 1 (understanding homeland security) and the next in
the series (understanding the risk and threats to domestic
security). All four volumes could be used in an introductory course
at the graduate or undergraduate level. Volumes 2 and 3 are most
likely to be adopted in a risk management (RM) course which
generally focus on threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences,
while volume 4 will get picked up in courses on emergency
management (EM).
This book is a compilation of CRS reports on the intelligence
community. Congresss and the American publics ability to oversee
and understand how intelligence dollars are spent is limited by the
secrecy that surrounds the intelligence budget process. Chapter 1
is designed to shed light on the IC budgetin terms of its programs,
management, and enduring issuesusing unclassified materials
available in the public domain. Chapter 2 focuses on cross-cutting
management issues that affect the Intelligence Communitys (ICs)
ability to counter pervasive and emerging threats to the United
States and balance resources both appropriately and wisely. The
next chapter reports on the use of contractors within the
intelligence community. Chapter 4 provides the names and
appointment provisions for selected Intelligence Community (IC)
senior officials. Chapter 5 summarizes dates and directives for the
establishment of each of the 17 IC component organisations. IC
Directive 116, Intelligence Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and
Evaluation System provides guidance for the IPPBE process. The
IPPBE process applies to all 17 IC components as discussed in
chapter 6. Chapter 7 differentiates clandestine from covert, using
clandestine to signify the tactical concealment of the activity and
covert operations as planned and executed to conceal the identity
of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor. The next chapter
builds on the notification requirements and the different
authorities of the U. S. Code need for covert action and
clandestine activities. Chapter 9 posits a potential framework for
congressional oversight of intelligence-related programs and
activities using the existing committee structure and notification
standards for the most sensitive intelligence activities: covert
action and clandestine intelligence collection. Total intelligence
spending is usually understood as the combination of the National
Intelligence Program (NIP), which supports strategic planning and
policymaking, and the Military Intelligence Program (MIP), which
supports military operational and tactical levels of planning and
operations as reported in chapter 10. Chapter 11 examines
intelligence funding over the past several decades, with an
emphasis on the period from 2007-2016.
The secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day.
The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded
in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding
of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional
worlds of James Bond and John le Carre. THE ART OF BETRAYAL
provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world
and the reality that lies behind the fiction. It tells the story of
how the secret service has changed since the end of World War II
and by focusing on the people and the relationships that lie at the
heart of espionage, revealing the danger, the drama, the intrigue,
the moral ambiguities and the occasional comedy that comes with
working for British intelligence. From the defining period of the
early Cold War through to the modern day, MI6 has undergone a
dramatic transformation from a gung-ho, amateurish organisation to
its modern, no less controversial, incarnation. Gordon Corera
reveals the triumphs and disasters along the way. The grand dramas
of the Cold War and after - the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall,
the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 11 September 2001 attacks and the
Iraq war - are the backdrop for the human stories of the individual
spies whose stories form the centrepiece of the narrative. But some
of the individuals featured here, in turn, helped shape the course
of those events. Corera draws on the first-hand accounts of those
who have spied, lied and in some cases nearly died in service of
the state. They range from the spymasters to the agents they ran to
their sworn enemies. Many of these accounts are based on exclusive
interviews and access. From Afghanistan to the Congo, from Moscow
to the back streets of London, these are the voices of those who
have worked on the front line of Britain's secret wars. And the
truth is often more remarkable than the fiction.
Most discussions on electronic media and intellectual forums about
the effects of globalization on national security focus on violent
threats. Notwithstanding the plethora of books, journals and
research papers on national and international security, there is an
iota research work on issue of interconnectedness. The
interconnectedness of violent threats and their mounting effect
pose grave dangers to the aptitude of a state to professionally
secure its territorial integrity. Technological evolution and
aggrandized interlinkage of our world in general, and specifically
information technology, has affected people and society in
different ways. Daily life of every man and woman has become
influenced by these challenges. The twenty first century appeared
with different class of National Security threats. After the first
decade, world leaders, research scholars, journalists, politicians,
and security experts grasped that the world has become the most
dangerous place. The avoidance of war was the primary objective of
superpowers, but with the end of the Cold War, emergence of Takfiri
Jihadism, extremism, and terrorism prompted many unmatched
challenges. Home-grown extremism and radicalization continues to
expose a significant threat to the National Security of the EU and
Britain. The risks from state-based threats have both grown and
diversified. The unmethodical and impulsive use of a military-grade
nerve agent on British soil is the worse unlawful act of
bioterrorists.
The explosive story of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and the new spy war between the West and Russia, based on hours of exclusive interviews Skripal gave before his near-death with number one bestselling author Mark Urban, diplomatic and defence editor for BBC Newsnight.
'With regard to traitors, they will kick the bucket on their own, I assure you . . . Whatever thirty pieces of silver those people may have gotten, they will stick in their throat.'
Vladimir Putin, 2010
4 March 2018, Salisbury, England.
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were enjoying a rare and peaceful Sunday spent together, completely unaware that they had been poisoned with the deadly nerve agent Novichok. Hours later both were found slumped on a park bench close to death.
Following their attempted murders on British soil, Russia was publicly accused by the West of carrying out the attack, marking a new low for international relations between the two since the end of the Cold War.
The Skripal Files is the definitive account of how Skripal’s story fits into the wider context of the new spy war between Russia and the West. The book explores the time Skripal spent as a spy in the Russian military intelligence, how he was turned to work as an agent by MI6, his imprisonment in Russia and his eventual release as part of a spy-swap that would bring him to Salisbury where, on that fateful day, he and his daughter found themselves fighting for their lives.
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