Intelligence Leadership and Governance (Studies in Intelligence)

Walsh, Patrick F.

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This book explores how potential bio-threats and risks may evolve post 9/11 given the rapid changes in biotechnology and synthetic biology. It also explores what role intelligence communities can play in understanding threats and risks. It argues that although bio-threats and risks are largely low probability and high impact in nature, intelligence in ‘Five Eyes’ countries remain insufficiently prepared to understand them. This book identifies key areas where intelligence reforms need to take place including a more strategic and systematic collaboration between national security/law enforcement intelligence and the scientific community. It is aimed at intelligence analysts, those in the scientific community working on health security threats, policy makers and researchers working on biosecurity and bioterrorism threats and risks.

Intelligence, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism

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This book examines the factors that are critical in developing future leaders of intelligence agencies and communities in the post-9/11 security environment. As the twenty-first century security and policy-making environment becomes increasingly complex for decision-makers, the focus on intelligence agencies 'to deliver' more value will increase. Several official and academic reviews into both the events of 9/11 and the intelligence that supported the US-led invasion of Iraq demonstrated that while several issues contributed to such intelligence failures, leadership issues was an important factor. However, none of the official reports or the subsequent and growing theorising on intelligence failure has focused profoundly on what leadership is in the intelligence context nor how practitioners and researchers can build better evidence to improve intelligence leadership. If intelligence agencies and their products are to remain valuable for decision-makers and we are to reduce both the frequency and impact of future intelligence failures-improving intelligence leadership in all its dimensions remains critical. Drawing principally on leadership developments across the 'Five Eyes' intelligence alliance (UK, USA, Australia, Canada, NZ), the book uses the 'effective intelligence framework' as its theoretical foundation to elucidate key themes on how to improve intelligence leadership capabilities and organisational performance. Drawing on secondary data sources and semi-structured interviews of former and current 'intelligence leaders' the book provides a grounded theory approach to building practitioner and researcher understanding of what individual and organisational factors result in better leadership. Uniquely, the book explores which individual attributes and organisational factors together result in better leadership of intelligence agencies and communities in the one volume. In short, this book addresses four key research objectives: 1. What is intelligence leadership? 2. What individual leadership capabilities are critical to managing challenges and opportunities in the post 9/11 security environment? 3. What organisational factors determine well led and sustainable intelligence communities in the post 9/11 security environment? 4. Does 'intelligence governance' improve individual intelligence leadership and organisational outcomes? This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies, strategic studies, leadership studies, security studies and International Relations.

In this wake-up call to action, author and businessman, Patrick Walsh, speaks powerfully, relentlessly and inclusively to the hearts, minds and fears of all Americans of every race, gender and orientation, about the social, political and moral crises we face today and identifies the real solutions and changes we must embrace to safeguard our families, ourselves and our country. This book will capture the reader's attention from the very first page, because it speaks the unvarnished truth, and real truth is never boring. These are uncomfortable truths to be sure, but social, political and economic truths which Americans need to hear in order to pull together as a people, remove the blinders and shake off the political and social malaise which keeps our feet firmly stuck in the mud; mud which we have created for ourselves and which our politicians and our media rely on to perpetuate their status quo, while we keep ourselves bound in an endless cycle of teeth-gnashing, hand-wringing disillusionment, economic disasters and educational and spiritual decline. In this book there is no subject too sensitive to tackle. You will surely experience amusement, anger, laughter, reflection and motivation, as this book identifies the real-life problems, challenges and outrages we face from our political leaders and our media on both sides of the aisle, and from ourselves, while providing real-life, common-sense solutions to address them. The author challenges us to take a “Hard Look in the Mirror” at ourselves, because liberal or conservative, man or woman, black or white, straight or gay, if we are disturbed by what we see in our political leadership today, and by what we see in our schools, media, families and society, the responsibility is ours to effect positive change, together. You will also find yourself with restored hope and admiration for our Country, the vision of our Founding Fathers, and of our shared brotherhood and sisterhood with each other, encouraging us to evolve, change and take action and to vigorously continue our shared journey toward perfection, which never ends.

A Hard Look in the Mirror; Fixing America's Crisis of Character: (And Our Leadership Crisis)

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Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis

This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments. Developments are explored thematically across three broad sections: <ul>
<li>applying intelligence</li> <li>understanding structures</li> <li>developing a discipline.</li> </ul>
Issues explored include: understanding intelligence models; the strategic management challenges of intelligence; intelligence capacity building; and the ethical dimensions of intelligence practice. Using case studies collected from wide-ranging interviews with leaders, managers and intelligence practitioners from a range of practice areas in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and US, the book indentifies examples of good practice across countries and agencies that may be relevant to other settings. Uniquely bringing together significant theoretical and practical developments in a sample of traditional and emerging areas of intelligence, this book provides readers with a more holistic and inter-disciplinary perspective on the evolving intelligence field across several different practice contexts. Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis will be relevant to a broad audience including intelligence practitioners and managers working across all fields of intelligence (national security, policing, private industry and emerging areas) as well as students taking courses in policing and intelligence analysis.

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Intelligence Leadership and Governance (Studies in Intelligence)

Intelligence, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism

Intelligence Leadership and Governance (Studies in Intelligence)

A Hard Look in the Mirror; Fixing America's Crisis of Character: (And Our Leadership Crisis)

Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis