Columns:: Prof maps future of American security

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Columns::October 22, 2001

Weekly Reader

Prof maps future of American security

$26.95 (hardcover)
New York University Press

Published in 2000 by UGA Regents Professor of Political Science Loch Johnson, Bombs, Bugs, Drugs and Thugs examines the present state, and future challenges of American strategic intelligence.
Johnson explores how America today aspires to achieve nothing less than “global transparency,” ferreting out information on potential dangers in every corner of the world. And yet the American security establishment, Johnson maintains, remains a loose federation of individual fortresses, rather than a well-integrated “community” of agencies working together to provide the president with accurate information on foreign threats and opportunities.
A lack of strong civilian authority over the secret agencies has resulted as well, Johnson argues, in the dominance of military intelligence at the expense of diplomatic and economic intelligence that might prevent war from breaking out in the first place.
Ranging from such topics as the intelligence role of the United Nations to whether assassination should be a part of America’s foreign policy, Johnson maps out a critical and prescriptive vision of the future of American intelligence.

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