Knowing your friends vs Western intelligence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Knowing your friends Knowing your friends Martin S. Alexander · 1998 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Moderate

Little attention has been paid to the murky, ultra-business of gathering intelligence among and forming estimates about friendly powers, and friendly or allied military forces. How rarely have scholars troubled to…

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Cover of Western intelligence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990 Western intelligence and the collapse of the Soviet Union, 1980-1990 David Arbel · 2003 ★★★★☆ 3.7 338 pages · ≈ 6 h 16 m · Moderate

"When the worst terrorist atrocity in American history occurred on September 11, 2001, the intelligence agencies of the United States and most of the western world were taken by surprise. Ten years earlier, in 1991,…

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