Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age

摘要: Confronted by the new challenges of information age and post-Soviet world, U.S. intelligence community must adapt change. And marginal change is not enough, authors this provocative book insist. Bruce Berkowitz Allan Goodman call for fundamental, radical reforms in organization approach America's agencies. They show why traditional approaches to fall short today, they propose thoughtful alternatives that take into account recent changes technology requirements. An information-age service would move away from a rigid, hierarchical structure toward more fluid, networked organization, explain. recommend system utilise private sector, with its access capital ability quickly than government organization. At same time, encourage operations concentrate on specialised, high-risk activities are uniquely able perform. examine failures community, discuss principles no longer adequate, consider implications such broad policy issues as secrecy, covert action, culture community.