TY - JOUR
T1 - Agents for stability or chaos
T2 - Conceptualizing intelligence "relevance" in counterinsurgency
AU - Michaels, Jeffrey
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - Recent discussions among U.S. officials about how the intelligence community can demonstrate its "relevance" to counterinsurgency have been dominated by an ideology that presupposes large-scale military intervention, and in which the role of intelligence is limited to improving analysis in support of current military activities, with little debate of future requirements. This article will highlight a number of alternative conceptions of intelligence "relevance" to counterinsurgency, based on a study of several historical and contemporary U.S. and non-U.S. cases, and by applying a wider definition of counterinsurgency that includes cases where the military plays a subordinate role relative to the intelligence services.
AB - Recent discussions among U.S. officials about how the intelligence community can demonstrate its "relevance" to counterinsurgency have been dominated by an ideology that presupposes large-scale military intervention, and in which the role of intelligence is limited to improving analysis in support of current military activities, with little debate of future requirements. This article will highlight a number of alternative conceptions of intelligence "relevance" to counterinsurgency, based on a study of several historical and contemporary U.S. and non-U.S. cases, and by applying a wider definition of counterinsurgency that includes cases where the military plays a subordinate role relative to the intelligence services.
U2 - 10.1080/1057610X.2011.545936
DO - 10.1080/1057610X.2011.545936
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79952010743
SN - 1057-610X
VL - 34
SP - 212
EP - 227
JO - STUDIES IN CONFLICT AND TERRORISM
JF - STUDIES IN CONFLICT AND TERRORISM
IS - 3
ER -