Description
Addressing questions about the nature, effectiveness and limits of intelligence leadership in the US and UK, this pathbreaking volume illuminates a key dimension of the knowledge-secrecy-power nexus that helps define intelligence. Original and highly informative, it provides an anatomy of intelligence leadership that will be an indispensable source for students and also points towards future research possibilities. -- Mark Phythian, University of Leicester The contributors to this unique volume cut through the mystique and secrecy surrounding many of the men and women who once stood at the apex of British and American intelligence. Their fascinating accounts illustrate the quirks, brilliance, and failures of the leaders who not only shaped organizational cultures, but also the role of intelligence in national policy. -- James J. Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
About the Author
Christopher Moran is associate professor of US national security at the University of Warwick. Mark Stout is program director of the MA in Global Security Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University and the former historian of the International Spy Museum. Ioanna Iordanou is a senior lecturer specializing in organizational and business history at the Oxford Brookes University School of Business. Paul Maddrell is lecturer in modern history and international relations at Loughborough University.
Reviews
Spy Chiefs feels like a deep reference book, yet reads like a detailed, intelligent, lengthy work of fiction. * John Koenig Stuff I Like *
Will appeal to both intelligence specialists and general readers. * Eye Spy International *
Broadens and deepens our understanding of the role of intelligence leaders in foreign affairs and national security. * Intelligencer *
The two volumes are superbly researched and fill a scholarly gap. -- Colonel Peter L. Larsen * Journal of Foreign Affairs *
Book Information
ISBN 9781626165199
Author Christopher Moran
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Georgetown University Press
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Weight(grams) 499g