AIPIO Acumen Edn 142
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January 2026
BOOKS Contemporary Intelligence Warning Cases: Learning from Successes and Failures Edited by Bjorn Elias Mikalsen Groning, Stig Stenslie What can intelligence producers and users learn from contemporary intelligence warning cases to anticipate, prepare for, mitigate and prevent future security challenges? A multiple case-study of contemporary intelligence warning (2006-2023). It features a broad spectrum of traditional […]
December 2025
BOOKS Eyes on the Enemy: U.S. Military Intelligence in World War II by Chris McNab The book begins by situating intelligence within the broader framework of national security, tracing its evolution from World War II through the Cold War to the present. Zegart emphasizes that intelligence agencies were designed for a different era—one dominated by […]
November 2025
BOOKS What Is Intelligence? Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds by Blaise Agüera y Arcas Agüera y Arcas challenges traditional definitions of intelligence by drawing parallels between biological evolution and computational systems. He argues that intelligence is not a static property but a dynamic capacity to predict and adapt. This view aligns with […]
October 2025
BOOKS Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy Tenth Edition by Mark M. Lowenthal Mark M. Lowenthal’s Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (Tenth Edition) offers a comprehensive, real-world guide to the U.S. intelligence community, its structure, operations, and evolving role in national security policy. This landmark textbook, now in its tenth edition, remains a foundational resource for students, […]
September 2025
BOOKS Eyes on the Enemy: U.S. Military Intelligence in World War II by Chris McNab Cécile Fabre’s Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence is a groundbreaking work of applied moral and political philosophy that tackles the long-neglected ethical dimensions of intelligence operations. Drawing from historical examples and philosophical reasoning, Fabre […]
August 2025
BOOKS Cyber Security Management and Strategic Intelligence by By Peter Trim, Yang-Im Lee Within the organization, the cyber security manager fulfils an important and policy-oriented role. Working alongside the risk manager, the Information Technology (IT) manager, the security manager and others, the cyber security manager’s role is to ensure that intelligence and security manifest in […]
July 2025
BOOKS Eyes on the Enemy: U.S. Military Intelligence in World War II by Chris McNab This is the astonishing story of the ten million books that US intelligence smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. At the heart of the story is a secret CIA program that smuggled millions of banned books into […]
June 2025
BOOKS The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence by Jeffrey P. Rogg A novel and comprehensive narrative of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Intelligence is all around us. We read about it in the news, wonder who is spying on us through our phones or computers, and […]
May 2025
BOOKS New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger and Mary K. Brooks For years, the United States was confident that the newly democratic Russia and increasingly wealthy China could be lured into a Western-led order that promised prosperity and relative peace—so long as they […]