Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security

Richard K. Betts

Paper, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13889-5
$21.50 / £12.50

September, 2007
Cloth, 264 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13888-8
$27.95 / £16.95

Preface

1. Twenty-first-Century Intelligence: New Enemies and Old

2. Permanent Enemies: Why Intelligence Failures Are Inevitable

3. Theory Traps: Expertise as an Enemy

4. Incorruptibility or Influence? Costs and Benefits of Politicization

5. Two Faces of Failure: September 11 and Iraq's WMD

6. An Intelligence Reformation? Two Faces of Reorganization

7. Whose Knowledge of Whom? The Conflict of Secrets

8. Enemies at Bay: Successful Intelligence

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• American Politics
• Security Studies

About the Author

Richard K. Betts is director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of numerous books on military strategy and foreign policy. He has served on the National Commission on Terrorism, staffs of the Senate Intelligence Committee and National Security Council, and advisory panels for the Director of Central Intelligence.

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