Intelligence Analysis: New Books 2021-22

Malkasian, who spent two years in the Afghan countryside, advised the US military commander in Afghanistan, and reviewed primary source documents, provides the first authoritative history of the American war in Afghanistan.

A broad history of immigrant detention in the U.S., in the world’s most extensive immigration detention system, including prisons, insane asylums, INS facilities, and refugee camps.

Comprehensive analysis of U.S. Special Operations units that undertake select military activities, frequently high-risk missions, often against terrorism and insurgency in over 100 countries every day

Explores Operations Research, including analytics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and big data, and is the cornerstone of management science in manufacturing, marketing, telecommunications, and many other fields.

Provides a history of hate groups, the role of seemingly "neutral" organizations in promoting the efforts of hate groups, and a review of current problems, controversies, and solutions.

Compares White nationalists and militant Islamists in the United States, describing their beliefs, grievances, and rationales for violence. Examines the group structures and offers tools to counter their hate from within.

Explores the impact of hate violence on individuals and communities as well as how people form biases join hate groups, participate in violent hate crimes, and how hate may become extreme.

Explores the relationship between the community tasked to research and assess intelligence and the national decision makers it serves. Argues that it must be viewed as a non-partisan resource to assist key players in understanding foreign societies and leaders

Helps readers develop a clear understanding of how to acquire, analyze, and present digital evidence as a proficient computer forensics investigator

The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States, including the disruption of indigenous communities through hunger and violence.

Provides a thorough treatment of the evolving scope, nature, and contexts of modern slavery and a discussion of prevention and abolition efforts.

Against the backdrop of Russia's new assertiveness, an international group of scholars examines a broad range of issues to explain recent alliance developments and make recommendations to NATO allies.

Combining an incisive understanding of technology with shrewd geopolitical analysis, Buchanan and Imbrie show how Artificial Intelligence can work for democracy and become a force for good.

Startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons, cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, transformed geopolitics like nothing since the atomic bomb.

Drawing on decades of research and hundreds of interviews with intelligence officials, provides a history of U.S. espionage and describes how new technology is now being used for theft, espionage and information warfare.

An examination of how America can strengthen its approach to China by building on its existing and improving its condition at home than on trying to impede Chinese initiatives.

Contrasts the tactical advantages and the hidden costs of vicarious warfare, where key tasks are delegated to proxies, the military's exposure to danger is limited, and special forces and covert instruments are on the increase.

Based on decades of research, reveals how China, with the complic¬ity of Western governments and corporations eager to gain access to China's huge market, created the most terrifying surveillance state in history.

Focusing on Southeast Asia, explores the seismic shift in thinking in the U.S. from “engagement” to “competition” with China in domains including diplomacy, commerce, intelligence, values and more

Looks at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Provides an authoritative analysis of Israel's approach to counterterrorism, including the decision-making processes, challenges, and dilemmas at the core of counterterror activities.

Argues that just war should be understood in three traditions: the Augustinian, the Westphalian, and the Liberal, each resting on distinct understandings of natural law, justice, and sovereignty.

Examines how the U.S. has attempted to oust many Middle Eastern governments, but repeatedly failed, leading to unintended and catastrophic consequences, carrying heavy financial and human costs, and leaving the countries worse off.

Government and private security agencies are recruiting intelligence analysts in ever higher numbers to process a voluminous amount of raw information and data. This book teaches the analytic skills and operation methods essential to undertake intelligence work.

Goes inside the lives of the members and family members of the MS-13,one of the most infamous street gangs on earth, to show how government policies and economic systems helped foster the gang and sustain it.

Startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons, cheap to acquire, easy to deny, and usable for a variety of malicious purposes, transformed geopolitics like nothing since the atomic bomb.

A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist's investigation of a billion-dollar secret industry- the booming business of private spying, operatives-for-hire retained by companies, political parties;and the powerful to dig up dirt on their enemies

Argues that the U.S. has abandoned the tools of irregular warfare that helped it win the Cold War, while Russia, China and Iran have increasingly adoptd cyberattacks, proxy forces, propaganda, espionage and disinformation to undermine American power.

Offers a comprehensive study of the Canadian intelligence community, its different parts and the key players' mandates and functions, and how it functions as a whole.

Paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process and foreign policy after 9/11 that led to thousands of deaths and a flood of chaos in the Middle East.

Systematically explores the historic and contemporary interface between Mexico and the United States along the shared 1,954-mile international land boundary, including trade, border culture, migration issues, and climate change.

Explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West, that emerged with the collapse of the Soviet Union, worsened by the resulting security dilemma and the impact of democratization, and eventually led to war in 2014.