Clift Notes; Intelligence & the Nation's Security

Washington DC: Joint Military Intelligence College, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, [2], 219, [1] pages. Foreword by Samuel V. Wilson, President, Hampden-Sydney College. Includes Foreword, Editor's Preface, Acknowledgments, Author's Biography, Biography, LTG Samuel V. Wilson, Notes. and Works Cited. Topics covered include Intelligence Education for Joint Warfighting, The Role of Defense Intelligence, The Five-Legged Calf: Bringing Intelligence to the National Security Debate, The Strategic Balance in Very Odd Times; National Security and National Competitiveness: Open Source solutions; The San Cristobal Trapezoid, co-authored with John T. Hughes; From Roe, Sims, and Thomas to You; Remarks at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum; In His Own Time, A Man Is Always Very Modern; Intelligence in Partnership; The Emerging Butterfly: Civilian Control Over Intelligence in the United States; The Knotted Stick of History; The Dinkum Oil; Safecrackers: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Intelligence, and FA34 +MSSI/2000 >JV 2010. This work examines the origin, evolution, and structure of American intelligence, its place in national defense and security, and its responsibilities and achievements. A. Denis Clift served as President of the National Defense Intelligence College, the flagship degree-granting education and research institution in the U.S. Intelligence Community, from 1994–2009. In 1999, he was elected to serve as a Commissioner on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education for the term 2000–2002, and was reelected for the term 2003–2005. From 1992–2009 he served as a Presidential Commissioner on the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on Prisoners of War/Missing in Action created by President George H.W. Bush and President Boris Yeltsin with the goal of accounting for servicemen still missing from past conflicts. Mr. Clift was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy (1954), Stanford University (B.A. 1958), and The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (M.Sc. 1967). He is a veteran of two Antarctic expeditions, including the 1961 Bellingshausen Sea Expedition. From 1963 to 1966, he was Editor, United States Naval Institute Proceedings. In 2009, he rejoined the Naval Institute where he serves in the senior leadership as Vice President for Planning and Operations. He began a career of public service as a naval officer in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and has served in military and civilian capacities in the administrations of 11 successive presidents, including 13 years in the Executive Office of the President and The White House. In 1971, he joined the National Security Council staff. From 1974 to 1976, he was head of President Ford's National Security Council staff for the Soviet Union and Eastern and Western Europe. From 1977 to 1981, he was Assistant for National Security Affairs to the Vice President of the United States Walter F. Mondale. From 1991 to 1994, he was Chief of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency, following service as Deputy Director for External Relations of the Agency. His books include Our World in Antarctica, With Presidents to the Summit, Clift Notes: Intelligence and the Nation's Security, co-author, Strategic Intelligence, and co-author The National Security Intelligence Handbook. Condition: Very good.

Keywords: Intelligence, National Security, Warfighting, Strategic Balance, National Competitiveness, Open Source, Civilian Control, San Cristobal Trapezoid

ISBN: 0965619524

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Price: $75.00

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