Mark M. Lowenthal
Auteur van Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy
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Mark M. Lowenthal has thirty-six years of experience as an intelligence official in the executive and legislative branches of government and in the private sector. He has served in the Congressional Research Service, the State Department, the House Intelligence Committee as staff director and the toon meer CIA, where he served as the assistant director of central intelligence for analysis and production, and also as vice chairman for evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. He is now the President and CEO of the Intelligence Security Academy. Dr. Lowenthal received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He is an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University; he was an adjunct professor at Columbia University from 1993-2007. toon minder
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This book is full of facts -- fact after fact after fact to get the student of intelligence up to snuff. Eventually, all the declarative sentences start to wear on one's patience. Also, redundancy abounds: I'm surprised to find myself reading and re-reading the same material. Perhaps this repetition is intended as an instructive tool for students who may not read the book cover to cover... or maybe it's just a sign of a lazy editor. Either way, it adds an unfortunate degree of tedium to an otherwise interesting read.
The material itself is fascinating, and the prose is accessible for any reader, even those with no prior acquaintance with the subject. But the book is an instruction text more than it is a narrative, and as such, it's probably better suited for scholastic readers, rather than those with a casual interest in the subject. It may be an easy read, but it's not exactly light reading.… (meer)