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Intelligence Studies Digest No. 11 February 2020 – March 2020 Compiled by Filip Kovacevic, Phd Fkovacevic@Usfca.Edu Books Dan Abrams and David Fisher Intelligence Studies Digest No. 11 February 2020 – March 2020 Compiled by Filip Kovacevic, PhD [email protected] Books Dan Abrams and David Fisher. John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father's Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial. Hanover Square Press, 2020 (March), 320 pp. Edward Achorn. Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020 (March), 336 pp. Marcus Brotherton. Blaze of Light: The Inspiring True Story of Green Beret Medic Gary Beikirch, Medal of Honor Recipient. WaterBrook, 2020 (March), 272 pp. Gordon Corera. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin's Spies. William Morrow, 2020 (February), 448 pp. Abdul El-Sayed. Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic. Abrams Press, 2020 (March), 352 pp. Richard B. Frank. Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937 – May 1942. Norton, 2020 (March), 768 pp. George Friedman. The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond. Doubleday, 2020 (February), 256 pp. Peter Fritzsche. Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. Basic Books, 2020 (March), 432 pp. Ben Hubbard. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman. Tim Duggan Books, 2020 (March), 384 pp. Hope Jahren. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here. Vintage, 2020 (March), 224 pp. Matt Jones. Mitch, Please!: How Mitch McConnell Sold Out Kentucky (and America, Too). Simon & Schuster, 2020 (March), 512 pp. Jonathan Karl. Front Row at the Trump Show. Dutton, 2020 (March), 368 pp. Charlie Kirk. The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future. Broadside Books, 2020 (March), 256 pp. Toby Ord. The Precipice: Existential Risk and to the Future of Humanity. Hachette Books, 2020 (March), 480 pp. Thomas Piketty. Capital and Ideology. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Belknap Press, 2020 (March), 1104 pp. Stephen Puleo. Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission. St. Martin's Press, 2020 (March). 336 pp. Robert B. Reich. The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It. Knopf, 2020 (March), 224 pp. Nina Sankovitch. American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution. St. Martin's Press, 2020 (March), 416 pp. Claudio Saunt. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. Norton, 2020 (March), 416 pp. James Shapiro. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future. Penguin, 2020 (March). 320 pp. Katherine Stewart. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious 1 Nationalism. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 (March), 352 pp. Tracy Walder. The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists. St. Martin's Press, 2020 (February), 272 pp. Jesse Wegman. Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College. St. Martin's Press, 2020 (March), 304 pp. Peter Zeihan. Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World. Harper Business, 2020 (March), 480 pp. Spy Fiction (February 2020 - March 2020): Steve Barry. The Warsaw Protocol: A Cotton Malone Series. Minotaur Books, 2020 (February), 384 pp. Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley. Shakedown: A Mayberry and Garrett Series. Broadside Books, 2020 (March), 368 pp. Mark Greaney. One Minute Out: A Gray Man Series. Berkley, 2020 (February), 512 pp. James Grippando. The Big Lie: A Jack Swyteck Series. Harper, 2020 (February), 368 pp. Joshua Hood. Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Resurrection. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020 (February), 384 pp. Ariel Lawhon. Code Name Hélène: A Novel. Doubleday, 2020 (March), 464 pp. Matthew Quick. Hour of the Assassin: A Novel. William Morrow, 2020 (March), 352 pp. James Rollins. The Last Odyssey: A Sigma Force Series. William Morrow, 2020 (March), 464 pp. Joel C. Rosenberg. The Jerusalem Assassin: A Marcus Ryker Series. Tyndale House Publishers, 2020 (March), 464 pp. Olen Steinhauer. The Last Tourist: A Milo Weaver Series. Minotaur Books, 2020 (March), 384 pp. Academic Journals Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 35 No. 2. Discussion Damien Van Puyvelde, “Profiles in Intelligence : An Interview with Sir David Omand,” pp. 171- 178. Articles Barry O’Connell, “Underground Alliances and Preventive Strikes: British Intelligence and Secret Diplomacy During the Napoleonic Wars, 1807-1810,” pp. 179-196. Nikki Ikani, Aviva Guttman, and Christoph O. Meyer, “An Analytics Framework for Postmortems of European Foreign Policy: Should Decision-Makers Have Been Surprised?” pp. 197-215. Robert Dover, “SOCMINT: A Shifting Balance of Opportunity,” pp. 216-232. 2 Liam McLoughlin, Stephen Ward, and Daniel W.B. Lomas, “’Hello, World’: GCHQ, Twitter and Social Media Engagement,” pp. 233-251. Marta Garcia Cabrera, “Operation Warden: British Sabotage Planning in the Canary Islands during the Second World War,” pp. 252-268. Michael Landon-Murray and Stephen Coulthart, “Intelligence Studies Programs as US Public Policy: A Survey of IC CAE Grant Recipients,” pp. 269-282. Itai Shapira, “Strategic Intelligence as an Art and a Science: Creating and Using Conceptual Frameworks,” pp. 283-299. Review Article R. Gerald Hughes and Ryan Shaffer, “Cyber War and Lessons from History in the Digital Age,” pp. 300-305. Book Reviews Ryan Shaffer - a review of G.B.S. Sidhu’s Sikkim: Dawn of Democracy, Gurgaon, Penguin Random House India, 2018, 370 pp., pp. 306-308. Ryan Shaffer – a review of Asad Durrani’s Pakistan Adrift: Navigating Troubled Waters, London, C. Hurst and Co., 2018, 288 pp., pp. 308-310. Roger George – a review of John A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon’s Strategic Warning Intelligence: History, Challenges, and Prospects, Washington, Georgetown University Press, 2019, 274 pp., pp. 310-312. Pauline Blistene – a review of Christopher Moran’s Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA, New York, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2016, 368 pp., pp. 312-316. Allen Packwood - a review of Barry Gough’s Churchill and Fisher: Titans at Admiralty, Barnsley (UK), Seaforth Publishing, 2017, Xxxix+600 pp., pp. 316-317. Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 35 No. 3. Articles Wesley Wark, “’Favourable Geography’: Canada’s Arctic Signals Intelligence Mission,” pp. 319- 330. Luke Daly-Groves, “Control not Morality? Explaining the Selective Employment of Nazi War Criminals by British and American Intelligence Agencies in Occupied Germany,” pp. 331-349. Stephen Marrin, “Analytic Objectivity and Science: Evaluating the US Intelligence Community’s Approach to Applied Epistemology,” pp. 350-366. Andrew Defty, “From Committees of Parliamentarians to Parliamentary Committees: Comparing Intelligence Oversight Reform in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK,” pp . 367-384. 3 Kevin P. Riehle, “Russia’s Intelligence Illegals Program: An Enduring Asset,” pp. 385-402. Adrian Hanni and Miguel Grossman, “Death to Traitors? The Pursuit of Intelligence Defectors from the Soviet Union to the Putin Era,” pp. 403-423. John N. Crossly, “Unofficial Advice and Official Policy: Sir Maurice Oldfield and All Souls College, Oxford, 1978-9,” pp. 424-437. Perspectives on Intelligence David R. Mandel, “The Occasional Maverick of Analytic Tradecraft,” pp. 438-443. Max Smeets, “US Cyber Strategy of Persistent Engagement and Defend Forward: Implications for the Alliance and Intelligence Collection,” pp. 444-453. Book Reviews Rob Cullum - a review of Eric Wertheim’s Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (16th edition), Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 2013, 1008 pp., pp. 454-463. Kurt F. Jensen – a review of Mark M. Lowenthal’s The Future of Intelligence, Medford, MA, Polity Press, 2018, 160 pp., pp. 455-458. Emma Harries – a review of Michael Smith’s The Anatomy of a Traitor: A History of Espionage and Betrayal, London, Aurum Press, 2017, 320 pp., pp. 458-460. Kathleen M. Vogel – a review of Patrick F. Walsh’s Intelligence, Biosecurity, and Bioterrorism, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018, 300 pp., pp. 460-463. The Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3. Introduction Gary Cecchine and Melinda Moore, “Infectious Disease and National Security – Strategic Information Needs,” pp. 3-8. Current Issues Jihyun (Amanda) Won, “The Theory and Practice of North Korean Espionage,” pp. 9-18. Aaron Mead-Long, “Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: An Analysis of Key Indicators, Including Operational and Strategic Recommendations,” pp. 19-32. Historical Context Kenneth Daigler, “For God and Country – The Intelligence Role of Rev. John Vardill,” pp. 33-36. Gerhardt B. Thamm, “Captured Document Exploitation,” pp. 37-42. Professional Insights Peter C. Oleson, “When Intelligence Made a Difference: Part III Intro,” pp. 43-45. 4 Robert M. Clark, “Geospatial Intelligence at Gettysburg,” pp. 45-47. Bob Alden, “The Genesis of the Incident at Sea Agreement,” pp. 47-51. Joel Wickwire, “The British Tea Heist – Industrial Intelligence, Circa 1847,” pp. 51-53. Quil Kibak, “The Battle of Tannenberg,” pp. 53-57. Peter C. Oleson, “Japanese Intelligence for the Attack on Pearl Harbor,” pp. 57-60. Cold War History, Vol. 20, No. 1. Ariane Knusel, “’White on the Outside but Red on the Inside’: Switzerland and Chinese Intelligence Networks during the Cold War,” pp. 77-94. Comparative Strategy, Vol. 39, No. 2. Michaela Dodge, “Russia’s Influence Operations in the Czech Republic during the Radar Debate,” pp. 162-170. Contemporary European History, Vol. 29, No. 1. Benjamin Tromly, “Émigré Politics and the Cold War: The National Labor Alliance (NTS), United States Intelligence Agencies and Post-War Europe,” pp. 44-59. Johanna Mellis, “From Defectors to Cooperators: The Impact of 1956 on Athletes, Sport Leaders and Sport Policy in Socialist Hungary,” pp. 60-76. Yasuhiro Matsui, “Forming a Transnational Moral Community between Soviet Dissidents and Ex- Communist Western Supporters: The Cases of Pavel Litvinov, Karel van het Reve and Stephen Spender,” pp.
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