-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.afio.com/sections/book_reviews/index.html <A HREF="http://www.afio.com/sections/book_reviews/index.html">AFIO | Book Reviews</A> ----- Book Reviews Search the Book Review Section Enter a word(s) or phrase(s) to search only the Book Reviews section. If you would like to search the entire AFIO web site, go to the Search section. Terms for which to Search: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STASI: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police, by John O. Koehler, 480 pages, Westview Press 1999, ISBN 0-8133-3409-8. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #05-99, 3 Feb. 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine, by James F. Calvert (VADM, USN ret), John Wiley & Sons, New York NY, 282 pages, $16.95. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #05-99, 3 Feb. 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The New Face of War, by Robert Chandler (Colonel, USAF ret), AMCODA Press, McLean Virginia, 465 pages, $33.00. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #05-99, 3 Feb. 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised US Security for Chinese Cash, by Edward Timperlake and William Triplett, Regenery. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #04-99, 24 January 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - The Stalin Era, by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassilev, Random House. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #04-99, 24 January 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE GRAND STRATEGY OF PHILIP II, by Geoffrey Parker, Yale University Press 1999. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #03-99, 20 January 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian Mercenaries, by Peter Scott, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland, 1998; ISBN 1-55750-846-1. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes - 12 January 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Israeli Bomb, Avner Cohen, Israel and the Bomb, Columbia U Press, 1998. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes - 04 January 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Top Secret Intranet, by Frederick Thomas Martin, 1998. Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes - 12 January 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spymasters: Ten CIA Officers in Their Own Words, ed. by Ralph E. Weber, Scholarly Resources, Inc., Wilmington, DE., 1999, ISBN 0-8420-2715-7 (paper). Full Review - Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes - 12 January 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ About AFIO | Chapters & Chapter Activities | Membership | Corporate | Weekly Intelligence Notes | Event Schedule | Bulletin Board | Book Reviews | Search | Other Intel Sites | Home Page AFIO Central Office 6723 Whittier Avenue, Suite 303A, McLean, Virginia 22101-4533 Telephone: 703 790 0320 | Facsimile: 703 790 0264 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== Book Review Top Secret Intranet, by Frederick Thomas Martin, 1998. A top secret, secure network across the intelligence community, called Intelink, has revolutionized the dissemination of U.S. intelligence in recent years. The author, a former NSA official, tells how the 13 intelligence agencies have gone from zealously guarding their own secrets to sharing many of them over "the world's largest, most secure network." Started in late 1994, Intelink is now used regularly by 50,000 analysts, operatives, military officers and policymakers with top secret security clearances at 100 different sites. Reportedly, they can access the latest satellite imagery from NIMA, search the network for communications intercepts from NSA, and chat electronically with other analysts. The searchable universe of Intellink consists of 440,000 electronic pages, which makes it a very large site by commercial standards. Intelink's operations center is housed at NSA, and all terminal are located inside top-secret government facilities. Only commercially available software was used in creating the net. Traffic on the net is highly encrypted. The intelligence agencies on the Intelink maintain their own internal intranets separated by firewalls from Intelink, leaving Intelink largely for "finished intelligence." At DIA the daily intelligence brief presented every morning to the Joint Chiefs, is now available to military commanders all over the world via Intelink within 15 minutes. The Intelink has forced the Intelligence community to severely bend the 'need-to-know' doctrine of the past, and has also forced acceptance of a 'frightening situation' from a counterintelligence standpoint where a traitor could download secrets that might not otherwise have been available to him. Work is ongoing to create software to build certain electronic pages that require their own digital identification for a user to gain access. (Loeb/WP 1 Dec 98, pA23) (DonH) Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes - 12 January 1999 ===== Book Review Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian Mercenaries, by Peter Scott, United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland, 1998; ISBN 1-55750-846-1. A former Army advisor to the Phoenix program from 1967 - 1970, Scott presents an insiders account of the bonds forged between Americans and brave Asian allies, in this case the Cambodian Khmer Krom, during the long Vietnam war. Blending combat narrative and emotional drama, village culture and the complex relationship with Special Forces soldiers, analysis with reflection, Scott has immortalized the Khmer Krom's final crusade against communism, and produced a highly readable and interesting book. (RoyJ) Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes - 12 January 1999 ===== Book Review THE GRAND STRATEGY OF PHILIP II, by Geoffrey Parker, Yale University Press 1999. For the intelligence reader, a change of pace to context and strategy. This book is useful as a case study both in leadership - - an intelligent ruler who was unable to delegate meaningful authority to subordinates - - and as an example of strategic reach exceeding strategic grasp - - with the notable intelligence correlary that an abundance of information is not an automatic blessing nor guarantor of success. Philip II presided over a global empire during the 16th century. He was a man of high moral principle, and incorruptible. With all that he compiled one of the worst won-lost records in Western history, including the debacle of the Grand Armada and the disastrous religious war in the Netherlands. This is a well written, interesting and readable book by a veteran historian, with many lessons for today - including the parallel problem of data abundance (overload) versus effective data procesing into knowledge, for executive decision-making, and the influence of the cultural domestic environment and values upon fitness for world leadership. (From rev. by Gary Anderson, WTimes 16Jan99, p. A13) (RoyJ) Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #03-99, 20 January 1999 ===== Book Review The New Face of War, by Robert Chandler (Colonel, USAF ret), AMCODA Press, McLean Virginia, 465 pages, $33.00. Discusses US strategy in the face of "weapons of mass destruction" - - - a threat of undoubted validity, but which appears to absorb a disproportionate amount of Pentagon oratorical and theatrical energy that somehow seems excessive. Chandler recommends the creation of a global reconnaissance-strike complex to meet the challenges of WMD proliferation. (RoyJ) Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #05-99, 3 Feb. 1999 ===== Book Review The Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised US Security for Chinese Cash, by Edward Timperlake and William Triplett, Regenery, 1998, 256 pages. Written by two veteran GOP Hill staffers, this book, which I have not seen, must be an anti-Clinton hatchet job. However that may be, for our purposes it relates to Chinese Intelligence and US Counterintelligence. Here is how amazon.com describes the book: "Timperlake and Triplett gather together an astonishing - and largely convincing - mass of evidence that the Clinton-Gore Administration made a series of 'Faustian bargains' and policy blunders that allowed a hostile power to further its aims in Washington. In addition to the potential security breach represented by Huang, they document numerous policy decisions that risk strengthening the technological and military power of Communist China, power that might well be used against the United States in the future." (John Mac). Further Comment: This episode would have made a much more convincing case against the President, but either the evidence was not there or nobody's skirts were clean in election campaign financing. (RoyJ) Reviewed in AFIO Weekly Intelligence Notes #04-99, 24 January 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. 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