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Canada is a key member of the world's most important international
intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US,
the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have
looked beyond the US to study how effectively intelligence analysts
support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking
insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and
defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides
the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence
and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both
former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted
seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and
intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence
community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and
Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence
performance in supporting policy—with implications for other
countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or
mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their
unique interests.
Canada is a key member of the world's most important international
intelligence-sharing partnership, the Five Eyes, along with the US,
the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. Until now, few scholars have
looked beyond the US to study how effectively intelligence analysts
support policy makers, who rely on timely, forward-thinking
insights to shape high-level foreign, national security, and
defense policy. Intelligence Analysis and Policy Making provides
the first in-depth look at the relationship between intelligence
and policy in Canada. Thomas Juneau and Stephanie Carvin, both
former analysts in the Canadian national security sector, conducted
seventy in-depth interviews with serving and retired policy and
intelligence practitioners, at a time when Canada's intelligence
community underwent sweeping institutional changes. Juneau and
Carvin provide critical recommendations for improving intelligence
performance in supporting policy-with implications for other
countries that, like Canada, are not superpowers but small or
mid-sized countries in need of intelligence that supports their
unique interests.
National security in the interest of preserving the well-being of a
country is arguably the first and most important responsibility of
any democratic government. Motivated by some of the pressing
questions and concerns of citizens, Top Secret Canada is the first
book to offer a comprehensive study of the Canadian intelligence
community, its different parts, and how it functions as a whole. In
taking up this important task, contributors aim to identify the key
players, explain their mandates and functions, and assess their
interactions. Top Secret Canada features essays by the country's
foremost experts on law, foreign policy, intelligence, and national
security, and will become the go-to resource for those seeking to
understand Canada's intelligence community and the challenges it
faces now and in the future.
Founded and rooted in Enlightenment values, the United States is
caught between two conflicting imperatives when it comes to war:
achieving perfect security through the annihilation of threats; and
a requirement to conduct itself in a liberal and humane manner. In
order to reconcile these often clashing requirements, the US has
often turned to its scientists and laboratories to find strategies
and weapons that are both decisive and humane. In effect, a modern
faith in science and technology to overcome life's problems has
been utilized to create a distinctly 'American Way of Warfare'.
Carvin and Williams provide a framework to understand the successes
and failures of the US in the wars it has fought since the days of
the early Republic through to the War on Terror. It is the first
book of its kind to combine a study of technology, law and
liberalism in American warfare.
Founded and rooted in Enlightenment values, the United States is
caught between two conflicting imperatives when it comes to war:
achieving perfect security through the annihilation of threats; and
a requirement to conduct itself in a liberal and humane manner. In
order to reconcile these often clashing requirements, the US has
often turned to its scientists and laboratories to find strategies
and weapons that are both decisive and humane. In effect, a modern
faith in science and technology to overcome life's problems has
been utilized to create a distinctly 'American Way of Warfare'.
Carvin and Williams provide a framework to understand the successes
and failures of the US in the wars it has fought since the days of
the early Republic through to the War on Terror. It is the first
book of its kind to combine a study of technology, law and
liberalism in American warfare.
Prisoners of war have featured in virtually every conflict that the
US has engaged in since its revolutionary beginnings. Today
visitors to Washington will frequently see a black POW flag flying
high on government buildings or war memorials in silent memory.
This act of fealty towards prisoners reflects a history where they
have frequently been a rallying point, source of outrage and
problem for both military and political leaders. This is as true
for the 2003 Iraq War as it was the American Revolution. Yet, the
story of prisoners in American wars (both enemies taken and
soldiers captured) reveals much about the nation itself; how it
fights conflicts and its attitudes towards laws of war. A nation
born out of an exceptional ideology, the United States has
frequently found itself faced with the contradictory imperatives to
be both exemplary and secure: while American diplomats might be
negotiating a treaty at The Hague, American soldiers could be
fighting a bloody insurrection where it seemed that few if any
rules applied. By taking a historical approach, this book
demonstrates that the challenges America faced regarding
international law and the war on terror were not entirely unique or
unprecedented. Rather, to be properly understood, such dilemmas
must be contextualized within the long history of those prisoners
captured in American wars.
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