The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy
Autor Loch K. Johnsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197604410
ISBN-10: 0197604412
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 168 x 249 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197604412
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 168 x 249 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
He offers a framework for evaluating the ethics of covert action, which he applies to exemplary cases from the last 75 years. Readers might apply this framework differently in some cases, but it is a good model. Johnson's book will have lasting utility for evaluating the US's ongoing use of covert action.
...the book offers a characteristically thoughtful contribution to the growing literature.
A wonderfully rich book by the dean of American students of intelligence. Johnson combines inside experience from various positions in the Congress with a lifetime of scholarship on intelligence. He pays particular attention to the role of Congress and the ethical dimension of covert action. The book provides invaluable background as covert action enters yet another phase in the cyber world.
No informed scholar has written about American intelligence from more angles and with more informed knowledge than Johnson. His new analysis of covert action maintains his record for thoroughness, insight, and fairness on all aspects of intelligence, and provides fascinating reading in the bargain.
In this richly detailed book, Johnson provides a framework for evaluating covert action in ethical terms. It is a landmark study—essential reading for all those studying or working in the fields of intelligence and foreign policy.
There is no better chronicler of the American intelligence community than Johnson. In his latest book, a tour de force study of covert action, he once again dazzles readers with the breadth and depth of his knowledge of national security affairs. In this important and illuminating look at propaganda, paramilitary operations, and lethal measures, he shows how the nation's leaders have all too often been seduced by the power of covert action and paid the price, damaging what intelligence activity is meant to defend—freedom.
Covert action—propaganda, coups, assassinations—are a comparatively recent 'third option' for US presidents acting in your name. Johnson gives a disquieting but readable history and a persuasive argument for why you should want the option limited or taken off the table.
A sweeping, judicious, and lively account of covert action. Johnson, the reigning dean of American intelligence scholars, draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the CIA and forthrightly recounts decades of payoffs, propaganda, poisoning plots, coups, and drone killings. His clear-eyed assessment of what worked and what backfired should be read by every policymaker and spymaster.
Loch Johnson has an astonishing grasp of the history of U.S. covert action since the beginning of the Cold War in the Truman era all the way through the beginnings of the Biden era. Drawing on that knowledge, he judges the Third Option by way of constitutional, ethical, and pragmatic criteria, and does so brilliantly. Any student, journalist, or citizen wishing to understand the pro's and con's of covert action as a tool of foreign policy should read this book.
Johnson remains objective and balanced with respect to both the achievements and the failures of U.S. covert action. He points to some of the challenges for effective intelligence oversight and also highlights the dysfunction in government that impacts the use of intelligence and covert action, especially as it concerned the Trump administration. The book strangely ends on a very optimistic note by proposing a fourth option: "...the virtue of leading by example" (275).
The Third Option, captures Johnson's vast experience and knowledge of the intricacies of covert action. Combined with his typically eloquent and accessible style of writing, The Third Option gives students, novice scholars and enthusiasts a well-rounded account of US covert action and its place in the boarder context of US foreign policy.
... the most thorough, thoughtful, provocative, and extensively documented contribution to the literature of covert action as an element of the intelligence profession.
... a comprehensive history of US covert action... those who study national security and US foreign policy will benefit from his synthesis of so many covert actions and their legal and ethical implications.
... a formidable expert on national security and intelligence ....ambitiously covers the history, legality, and morality of CIA-led covert operations since 1947... a fascinating investigation.
... a thoughtful and painstaking even-handed account of Congressional efforts to impose the law on the CIA.
... a valuable contribution... his analysis of the legal framework for covert action and the role of Congress are particularly noteworthy.
... meticulous research, thorough investigation of primary documents, fluid writing, and a witty flair for description...
...a beguiling combination of constructive thinking and clear prose...perhaps the most erudite book to have appeared on the history and politics of the CIA.
...the book offers a characteristically thoughtful contribution to the growing literature.
A wonderfully rich book by the dean of American students of intelligence. Johnson combines inside experience from various positions in the Congress with a lifetime of scholarship on intelligence. He pays particular attention to the role of Congress and the ethical dimension of covert action. The book provides invaluable background as covert action enters yet another phase in the cyber world.
No informed scholar has written about American intelligence from more angles and with more informed knowledge than Johnson. His new analysis of covert action maintains his record for thoroughness, insight, and fairness on all aspects of intelligence, and provides fascinating reading in the bargain.
In this richly detailed book, Johnson provides a framework for evaluating covert action in ethical terms. It is a landmark study—essential reading for all those studying or working in the fields of intelligence and foreign policy.
There is no better chronicler of the American intelligence community than Johnson. In his latest book, a tour de force study of covert action, he once again dazzles readers with the breadth and depth of his knowledge of national security affairs. In this important and illuminating look at propaganda, paramilitary operations, and lethal measures, he shows how the nation's leaders have all too often been seduced by the power of covert action and paid the price, damaging what intelligence activity is meant to defend—freedom.
Covert action—propaganda, coups, assassinations—are a comparatively recent 'third option' for US presidents acting in your name. Johnson gives a disquieting but readable history and a persuasive argument for why you should want the option limited or taken off the table.
A sweeping, judicious, and lively account of covert action. Johnson, the reigning dean of American intelligence scholars, draws on his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the CIA and forthrightly recounts decades of payoffs, propaganda, poisoning plots, coups, and drone killings. His clear-eyed assessment of what worked and what backfired should be read by every policymaker and spymaster.
Loch Johnson has an astonishing grasp of the history of U.S. covert action since the beginning of the Cold War in the Truman era all the way through the beginnings of the Biden era. Drawing on that knowledge, he judges the Third Option by way of constitutional, ethical, and pragmatic criteria, and does so brilliantly. Any student, journalist, or citizen wishing to understand the pro's and con's of covert action as a tool of foreign policy should read this book.
Johnson remains objective and balanced with respect to both the achievements and the failures of U.S. covert action. He points to some of the challenges for effective intelligence oversight and also highlights the dysfunction in government that impacts the use of intelligence and covert action, especially as it concerned the Trump administration. The book strangely ends on a very optimistic note by proposing a fourth option: "...the virtue of leading by example" (275).
The Third Option, captures Johnson's vast experience and knowledge of the intricacies of covert action. Combined with his typically eloquent and accessible style of writing, The Third Option gives students, novice scholars and enthusiasts a well-rounded account of US covert action and its place in the boarder context of US foreign policy.
... the most thorough, thoughtful, provocative, and extensively documented contribution to the literature of covert action as an element of the intelligence profession.
... a comprehensive history of US covert action... those who study national security and US foreign policy will benefit from his synthesis of so many covert actions and their legal and ethical implications.
... a formidable expert on national security and intelligence ....ambitiously covers the history, legality, and morality of CIA-led covert operations since 1947... a fascinating investigation.
... a thoughtful and painstaking even-handed account of Congressional efforts to impose the law on the CIA.
... a valuable contribution... his analysis of the legal framework for covert action and the role of Congress are particularly noteworthy.
... meticulous research, thorough investigation of primary documents, fluid writing, and a witty flair for description...
...a beguiling combination of constructive thinking and clear prose...perhaps the most erudite book to have appeared on the history and politics of the CIA.
Notă biografică
Loch K. Johnson is Regents Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is the author of over 200 articles and thirty books on US national security, including Spy Watching: Intelligence Accountability in the United States and National Security Intelligence, 2d ed. He served as special assistant to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1975-76); as a staff aide on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1976-77); as the first staff director of the Subcommittee on Intelligence Oversight, US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (1977-79); and as special assistant to Chairman Les Aspin of the Aspin-Brown Presidential Commission on the Roles and Missions of Intelligence (1995-96).(SPIA) at the University of Georgia.