Combating proliferation : strategic intelligence and security policy
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Combating proliferation : strategic intelligence and security policy
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, c2004
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The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systems-and the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessments-illustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In this comprehensive assessment, defense policy specialists Jason Ellis and Geoffrey Kiefer find disturbing trends in both the collection and analysis of intelligence and in its use in the development and implementation of security policy. Analyzing a broad range of recent case studies-Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, North Korea's defiance of U.N. watchdogs, Russia's transfer of nuclear and missile technology to Iran and China's to Pakistan, the Soviet biological warfare program, weapons inspections in Iraq, and others-the authors find that intelligence collection and analysis relating to WMD proliferation are becoming more difficult, that policy toward rogue states and regional allies requires difficult tradeoffs, and that using military action to fight nuclear proliferation presents intractable operational challenges.
Ellis and Kiefer reveal that decisions to use-or overlook-intelligence are often made for starkly political reasons. They document the Bush administration's policy shift from nonproliferation, which emphasizes diplomatic tools such as sanctions and demarches, to counterproliferation, which at times employs interventionist and preemptive actions. They conclude with cogent recommendations for intelligence services and policy makers.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Preface
1. Proliferation 101: A Dynamic Threat, An Evolving Response
2. Standards of Evidence: Intelligence Judgments and Policy Determinations
3. Through a Glass Darkly: Estimative Uncertainties and Policy Trade-offs
4. Intelligence Surprise: Deception, Innovation, Proliferation
5. Intelligence Sharing: Prospective Risks, Potential Rewards
6. Military Support: Intelligence in an Operational Context
7. Warfighting in a WMD Context: Intelligence Gaps, Operational Capabilities, and Policy Implications
8. Combating Proliferation: Toward a National Strategy
Notes
Index
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