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The threat on the horizon : an inside account of America's search for security after the Cold War / Loch K. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Loch K., 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--United States.
- Intelligence service.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (550 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U.S. intelligence community adapt to the quite different world that had emerged after the end of the Cold War in 1991. In The Threat on the Horizon, eminent national security scholar Loch K. Johnson, who served as Aspin's assistant, offers a comprehensive insider's account of this inquiry. Based on a close siftin
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The beginning
- pt. 2. Seeking answers
- pt. 3. Leadership transition
- pt. 4. End game
- pt. 5. Reform unraveled.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-979297-6
- 0-19-025245-6
- 1-282-97724-5
- 9786612977244
- 0-19-979243-7
- OCLC:
- 704377925
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