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The 100 billion dollar brain : central intelligence machinery in the UK and the US

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Aldrich, Richard J. (2015) The 100 billion dollar brain : central intelligence machinery in the UK and the US. International Affairs, 91 (2). pp. 393-403. ISSN 0020-5850

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12242

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Abstract

The ‘Five Eyes’ alliance, led by the United States, spends close to 100 billion dollars a year on intelligence. This review article argues that western countries are distinguished by their sophisticated approach to the making of intelligence-led national security policy. Political leaders and policy-makers who access this sensitive material are often involved in elaborate systems that constitute part of the core executive and which seek to task and improve the intelligence leviathan. Western intelligence therefore has a ‘central brain’ that devotes considerable energy to both analysis and management. By contrast, in the majority of other states around the world, the orientation of intelligence has often been inward facing, with a high priority given to regime security. Some would suggest that intelligence has been an important component of western power projection, while others would argue that this process has been over-expensive and has under-delivered, not least in the last decade. Either way, the debates about development of the central intelligence machinery that supports western security policies are of the first importance and fortunately this discussion has been advanced by the appearance of several valuable new studies: these are discussed in this review article.

Item Type: Book Review
Subjects: U Military Science > U Military Science (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Intelligence service -- United States, Intelligence service -- Great Britian
Journal or Publication Title: International Affairs
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 0020-5850
Official Date: March 2015
Dates:
DateEvent
March 2015Published
27 March 2015Available
4 February 2015Accepted
Volume: 91
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 393-403
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2346.12242
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 7 April 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 27 March 2017

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