Intelligence And Strategic Culture
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Author |
: Isabelle Duyvesteyn |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 107 |
Release |
: 2013-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317967040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317967046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intelligence and Strategic Culture by : Isabelle Duyvesteyn
Reliable information on potential security threats is not just the result of diligent intelligence work but also a product of context and culture. The volume explores the nexus between the intelligence process and strategic culture. How can and does the strategic outlook of the United States and the United Kingdom in particular, influence the intelligence gathering, assessment and dissemination process? This book contains an assessment of how political agendas and ideological outlook have significant influence on both the content and process of intelligence. It looks in particular at the premise of hearts and minds policies, culture and intelligence gathering in counterinsurgency operations; at case studies from imperial Malaya and Iran in the 1950s and at instances of intelligence failure, e.g. the case of Iraq in 2003. How was intelligence, or the lack thereof, a product of political culture and how did it play a role in the political praxis? The book shows that political agendas and the ideological outlook have a significant influence upon both the content and process of intelligence. This book was originally published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.
Author |
: Gino LaPaglia |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2019-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498588324 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498588328 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence by : Gino LaPaglia
Strategic Intelligence is a form of meaning that promises the possibility of strategic advantage, dignity, the achievement of objective, and the fulfillment of potential in hostile environments. In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence Gino LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of reason—arising in human experience, encoded as value, and born by culture as a strategic resource—has been encoded as values that have been memorialized in culturally authoritative sources in various Eurasian cultures for thousands of years. These sources have validated a strategic orientation in the world, legitimized the strategist as a heroic identity, and transmitted a coherent world view that enables the practitioner of strategy to overcome asymmetric threat. By excavating the provenance of strategic thought expressed in the cultural identity of the strategist in the most culturally authoritative mythological, literary, philosophical and religious sources, and excavating the underlying strategic values expressed in cultural products, LaPaglia demonstrates that the strategic aspect of human rationality is one of the most basic structural dynamics of human meaning, and that the transmission of this strategic way of being and acting in the world offers hope for life’s underdogs.
Author |
: Kerry M. Kartchner |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 515 |
Release |
: 2023-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000956351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000956350 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture by : Kerry M. Kartchner
This handbook offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of strategic culture by a mix of international scholars, consultants, military officers, and policymakers. The volume explicitly addresses the analytical conundrums faced by scholars who wish to employ or generate strategic cultural insights, with substantive commentary on defining and scoping strategic culture, analytic frameworks and approaches, levels of analysis, sources of strategic culture, and modalities of change in strategic culture. The chapters engage strategic culture at the civilizational, regional, supra-national, national, non-state actor, and organizational levels. The volume is divided into five thematic parts, which will appeal to both students who are new to the subject and scholars who wish to incorporate strategic culture into their toolbox of analytical techniques. Part I assesses the evolving theoretical strengths and weaknesses of the field. Part II lays out elements of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field, including sources and components of strategic culture. Part III presents a number of national strategic cultural profiles, representing the state of contemporary strategic culture scholarship. Part IV addresses the utility of strategic culture for practitioners and scholars. Part V summarizes the key theoretical and practical insights offered by the volume’s contributors. This handbook will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, defense studies, security studies, and international relations in general, as well as to professional practitioners.
Author |
: I.G.B.M. Duyvesteyn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:951506746 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Special Issue on Intelligence and Strategic Culture: Essays on American and British Praxis Since the Second World War by : I.G.B.M. Duyvesteyn
Author |
: Kenneth D. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Strategic Studies Institute |
Total Pages |
: 42 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781584873938 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1584873930 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis China's Strategic Culture by : Kenneth D. Johnson
For the past 2 decades, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has made great gains in national development and economic growth and now stands as one of the most important states on the world scene. It is extremely important for U.S. policymakers to have a contextual understanding of what shapes Chinese thought and behavior thus driving Chinese political, economic, and military imperatives. With much of the American public accepting the "China Threat" theory, it is critical that the United States recognize the role of strategic culture in shaping China's domestic and external policies. This paper illustrates the key characteristics of Chinese strategic culture-philosophy, history, and domestic factors that, to a remarkable extent, structure the strategic objectives of China's formal foreign policy and explain how Chinese strategic interests are defined by modern Chinese pragmatic nationalism, its drive for modernization, and the desire for China to have a more prominent role in the Asian and world communities. A concluding analysis of the implications of Chinese strategic culture offer recommendations for U.S. national security policy.
Author |
: Jeannie L. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2009-02-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105131761913 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction by : Jeannie L. Johnson
Interest in reviving strategic culture as a field of study results from the inadequacy of traditional analytical approaches and calls to develop a new framework to guide policymaking in the post-9/11 security environment. The book considers 10 case studies of WMD decision-making, profiling culture in terms of geography, shared narratives, group relationships, threat perception, ideology, religion, economics, leadership style, and more. Strategic culture can help us more accurately evaluate intelligence regarding dangers emanating from other cultures and improve our strategic communications. A strategic cultural perspective makes us appreciate the requirements for promoting U.S. global responsibilities in a multi-cultural context, negotiate across cultures more effectively, and forecast the implications of cultural change for strategic planning purposes.
Author |
: K. Kartchner |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2009-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230618305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230618308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction by : K. Kartchner
This book describes strategic culture and its value as a methodological approach to the study of International Relations. In particular, the book uses strategic culture to illuminate a number of case studies on countries that have made decisions regarding the acquisition, proliferation or use of weapons of mass destruction.
Author |
: Jeannie L. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2018-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781626165571 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1626165572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture by : Jeannie L. Johnson
The United States Marine Corps has a unique culture that ensures comradery, exacting standards, and readiness to be the first to every fight. Yet even in a group that is known for innovation, culture can push leaders to fall back on ingrained preferences. Jeannie L. Johnson takes a sympathetic but critical look at the Marine Corps's long experience with counterinsurgency warfare. Which counterinsurgency lessons have been learned and retained for next time and which have been abandoned to history is a story of battlefield trial and error—but also a story of cultural collisions. The book begins with a fascinating and penetrating look inside the culture of the Marine Corps through research in primary sources, including Marine oral histories, and interviews with Marines. Johnson explores what makes this branch of the military distinct: their identity, norms, values, and perceptual lens. She then traces the history of the Marines' counterinsurgency experience from the expeditionary missions of the early twentieth century, through the Vietnam War, and finally to the Iraq War. Her findings break new ground in strategic culture by introducing a methodology that was pioneered in the intelligence community to forecast behavior. Johnson shows that even a service as self-aware and dedicated to innovation as the Marine Corps is constrained in the lessons-learned process by its own internal predispositions, by the wider US military culture, and by national preferences. Her findings challenge the conclusions of previous counterinsurgency scholarship that ignores culture. This highly readable book reminds us of Sun Tzu's wisdom that to be successful in war, it is important to know thyself as well as the enemy. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the Marines Corps, counterinsurgency warfare, military innovation, or strategic culture.
Author |
: Jeannie L. Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1349376949 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781349376940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction by : Jeannie L. Johnson
Interest in reviving strategic culture as a field of study results from the inadequacy of traditional analytical approaches and calls to develop a new framework to guide policymaking in the post-9/11 security environment. The book considers 10 case studies of WMD decision-making, profiling culture in terms of geography, shared narratives, group relationships, threat perception, ideology, religion, economics, leadership style, and more. Strategic culture can help us more accurately evaluate intelligence regarding dangers emanating from other cultures and improve our strategic communications. A strategic cultural perspective makes us appreciate the requirements for promoting U.S. global responsibilities in a multi-cultural context, negotiate across cultures more effectively, and forecast the implications of cultural change for strategic planning purposes.
Author |
: Juliana Geran Pilon |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2009-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780615387024 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0615387020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Intelligence for Winning the Peace by : Juliana Geran Pilon