Reshaping National Intelligence For An Age Of Information

A study of the national intelligence needs of an information-oriented society, espousing the view that the needs are at least twofold: needs must be contrarian, which is at odds with conventional wisdom, and focused on the long term picture. Discusses changes that must be made by policy makers in America to serve our intelligence needs.

In a bold and penetrating study, Gregory Treverton, former Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council and Senate investigator, offers his insider's views on how intelligence gathering and analysis must change. Treverton suggests why intelligence needs to be contrarian and attentive to the longer term. Believing that it is important to tap expertise outside government to solve intelligence problems, he argues that involving colleagues in the academy, think tanks, and Wall Street befits the changed role of government from doer to convener, mediator, and coalition-builder. Hb ISBN (2001): 0-521-58096-X