The People's Republic Of China Case Report

The 1776 united States of America Declaration of Independence contain the words that succinctly describe our national objective, strategy, and message, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” In today’s United States of America, the world acknowledges American’s as the preeminent owner of individual freedoms, holding and promoting these three basic principles for some 240 years. During these years, the U.S. has employed the use of intelligence to shape its objectives and strategies, and then in times of war used the same intelligence to shape strategic messages against foreign powers. However, as hostilities decline and give way to the restoration of relative peace, the use of intelligence for strategic messages against foreign powers ceases. Under these circumstances, the void created by secession of U.S. messages, provides a communication opportunity to foreign powers for transmission of anti-U.S. messages. Attempts have been made to reinstate the offices that during war countered these anti-U.S. messages to a comprehensive reorganization of the U.S Government intelligence community. This paper does not support creation of a new agency or department to utilize existing strategic intelligence.

Upon analyzing 9/11 it was clear to focus on the limitations that the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency had faced. Security breaches and poor intelligence sharing were just some of the critical failures that were encountered. Moreover, the main focus is pointed towards the miscommunication between these two agencies. Evidently, the execution and tactical strategies went unnoticed despite the apparent red flags that presented themselves, in addition to the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Central Intelligence Agency failure to pursue threats and establish a baseline of security resulted in the disaster of 9/11. In conjunction to these mistakes, the restriction of shared information

In her 1999 book Flawed By Design, Stanford academic Amy Zegart examines the three main American national security agencies: the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), and the National Security Council (NSC). She covers the history of each of the agencies from creation to the 1990s. While going through each of their histories, she makes a point to break down their histories into their creations and evolutions. This breakdown allows Zegart to effectively and concisely support her conclusion that the agencies are flawed by design. Furthermore, her conclusions are relevant to the U.S. military today. Any competent military professional should learn lessons from Zegart as the lessons she offers have keen importance

The Central Intelligence Agency, hereafter referred to as the CIA, is one of the most well-known and fascinating intelligence agencies throughout the world. For the most part, when the CIA comes up in the news, it is to report that the agency failed in doing something. This paper will analyze different successes and failures of well-known operations of the CIA. The successes that will be analyzed are Operation Argo and the killing of Osama Bin Ladin. Operation Argo has recently become well known due to a movie being released about the operation. The killing of Osama Bin Ladin is probably the most popular case that the CIA had completed due to its significance in a time when the United States was quite vulnerable. This paper will review these two successes of the agency and analyze how these missions were successful and why. The two failures that will be discussed are the attacks on September 11, 2001 and the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 are crucial to the American people and to the Intelligence Community. It is important to analyze these attacks in order to figure out what, if anything, could have been done differently that may have prevented these attacks from occurring. The Bay of Pigs Invasion is an infamous failure of the United States as well as the CIA in which many mistakes were made. The CIA plays an essential role in the safety of the United States and its people. Due to its high importance, it is crucial to

The Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of sixteen separate United States government agencies that worked separately and together on matters of foreign relations and national security. One of these agencies is the Central Intelligence Agency which is to collect, analyze, evaluate, disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the President and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to national security. Therefore this paper will discuss Central Intelligence Agency history and the role it plays in combating acts of terrorism.

General Clapper, the United States Director of National Intelligence, recently briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on the worldwide threat assessment. His brief addressed the implications of technology on national security, and characteristics of the nation’s leading threat actors that include China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state actors. The entirety of the briefing demonstrates that the United States will face numerous increasingly complex national security challenges into the foreseeable future.

After 9/11, an event so shocking, and humiliating to both the American people, and the U.S. Government, vast reforms were identified to ensure that an attack of this magnitude never happened again. From the ashes of this despicable act came two major pieces of Intelligence reform. These documents were the 9/11 Commission Report and The Intelligence Reform Act and Terrorist Prevent Act of 2004 (IRTPA). Both documents worked to reform the Intelligence Community (IC), and streamline current processes to improve the sharing of intelligence information, and products. With the sweeping changes

According to a white paper conducted by the Intelligence Committee of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), both law enforcement and intelligence organizations recognize the need to collaborate, share, and exchange information. However, the events leading up to 9/11 document how the legal and artificial boundaries between them created a serious impediment to protecting the country. First this paper will discuss some of the reasoning and initiatives behind the development of information sharing between the Intelligence Community (IC) and law enforcement agencies; and this paper will also discuss the similarities and difference between Title 50 United States Code (U.S.C.) intelligence activities to law enforcement information gathering/sharing. Apparently, the consensus is that, the IC and the law enforcement agencies need to share more information, that include operational strategies and tactics—especially those focused on transnational issues such as terrorism, drugs, counterintelligence, and weapons of mass destruction—needed to be better integrated.

Throughout the seventy-three year history of the Central Intelligence Agency, there have been mistakes and successes. Both the achievements and failures of the CIA have greatly influenced the history of the United States. Although intelligence activities have occurred since the birth of the United States of America, it was not until WWII that intelligence activities first became part of a centralized organization. “The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor highlighted the need to separate “signals” from “noise”.” Even though the United States had managed to break the Japanese top-secret code, the United States underestimated Japan’s capacity to follow through with such a bold attack. The failure of Pearl Harbor in 1941 emphasized the need for a

After the horrific attacks of 9/11, the U.S. Government created the Department of Homeland Security, which then created over 220 different organizations and agencies to combat terrorism and collect intelligence. These agencies and organizations receive orders and directions from the National Intelligence Agency, and employees over 850,000 government employees with an approximate annual budget of $100 million. With a large annual budget and multiple employees working domestically and with foreign policy, the intelligence function has changed dramatically over the last decade and a half. Foreign governments have scrutinized the National Intelligence (NI) community for monitoring foreign militaries, and their government’s intentions

The intelligence community of the United States is a large, robust and bureaucratic system. From this community though, the national objectives of the United States are supported through their gathering and analytical capabilities. The following paper will highlight the intelligence agencies of the Federal government as well as state and local agencies that make up the intelligence community. Within these entities are programs that develop intelligence for use in protecting the homeland as well as analyzing intelligence from across the broad intelligence community spectrum. Along with this information, an overview of the 9/11 Commissions report on intelligence sharing recommendations will be looked at. Finally the domestic and foreign intelligence issue will be defined and addressed. From these discussions the overall capabilities and limitations of intelligence and the intelligence community will be seen through the aspect of supporting the efforts of securing the homeland.

In the world of intelligence, there are numerous lessons that could be learned from over the years and through much trial and error, the United States government has experienced numerous intelligence failures. With these failures, some have resulted in disaster by a chain of events being led to other intelligence failures and successes alike. In this paper, I explain how the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba was not only an embarrassment to the John F. Kennedy administration, but it is also believed that this debacle created a chain of events leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Covert Action is any activity performed by U.S. government entities with the intent to influence another nations political, economic or military conditions, while the U.S. government role will not be known or acknowledged publicly. Thus, providing the United States plausible deniability is crucial to any covert action carried out by the U.S. government. However, as one can tell by the provided covert action definition, there are various forms of covert actions. This essay will discuss the various forms of covert action and assess each discussed covert actions utility and value in the modern era. Additionally, an example of one of the forms of covert action will be provided.

Intelligence products or also referred as “Finished intelligence” are very important because U.S. Government Officials and decision makers such as the President, policymakers, agencies’ directors, and senior military officers among others, make their decisions based on the findings and analysis that are provided through the intelligence products (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013). The decisions of U.S. Government Officials are very important because they can have a major impact on many people and they can also place peoples’ lives at risk if the decisions are not carefully made. Therefore, the USIC must take into consideration many different factors and utilize different types of sources when they develop their intelligence products so that their products can reveal the information and analysis that their customers need to know in order to make wise decisions (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013).

Espionage has been recognized as an important part of all military affairs since the beginnings of recorded history. It began with, and still heavily relies upon, the various forms of