Best Truth: Intelligence in the Information Age - Hardcover

Berkowitz, Mr. Bruce D.; Goodman, Professor Allan E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300080115 ISBN 13: 9780300080117

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Best Truth is a manifesto for a new model of intelligence operations in the information age. The central theme is that intelligence is information; therefore, the intelligence community must keep apace of the information revolution. The authors argue that intelligence agencies' excessive emphasis on hierarchy and secrecy prevents them from responding to today's highly fluid information "marketplace." They propose a new, less centralized model of management that incorporates the private sector--in essence, outsourcing intelligence.

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From the Back Cover:

"Berkowitz and Goodman are pros at the intelligence business. Their proposals for updating the intelligence community are radical but anything less than radical won't do."—Leslie Gelb "Berkowitz and Goodman know their subject and raise the right issues. An important look at intelligence in the information age."—Joseph S. Nye, Dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy "Most books on the intelligence community are about the past. This one is about the future. Integrating a profound knowledge of the US government, world affairs, and information technology, Berkowitz and Goodman brilliantly chart what the intelligence community must do to remain relevant in this decade of change."—Kenneth W. Dam, Former Deputy Secretary of State "Written by two intelligence officers-turned-academics, this slim volume calls for a sea change in both the culture and structure of the CIA. . . . Will surely spark debate."—Choice

About the Author:

Bruce D. Berkowitz is a widely published author and serves as a senior consultant at RAND. His previous books include American Security: Dilemmas for Modern Democracy (ISBN 0 300 04266 3 pb. #13.95), published by Yale University Press. Allan E. Goodman was executive dean and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service while working on this book. He recently became president and chief executive officer of the Institute of International Education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0300080115
• ISBN 13: 9780300080117
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224