Truth to Power: A History of the U.S. National Intelligence Council Audiobook (Free)

This historic mission of this remarkable but little-known organization, the U.S. Country wide Intelligence Council (NIC), today forty years old, is strategic cleverness assessment operating of older American international policymakers. Its personal inside products, National Intelligence Estimates, are now accompanied with the NIC’s every-four-years Global Developments. Unclassified, Global Developments has turned into a observed NIC brand, its release awaited by officials, academics, and private sector managers around the about Truth to Power: A BRIEF HISTORY from the U.S. National Intelligence Council globe.

Truth to Power monitors the NIC’s part in providing strategic analysis on every main foreign policy concern confronting the United States during this consequential period. Chapters offer insider insights over the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the terrorist episodes of Sept 11, 2001, the invasion and profession of Iraq in 2003, the nuclear weaponry applications in Iran and North Korea, upheaval in the Middle East like the rise and fall from the Islamic Condition, the rise of China, and Russia’s convert toward hostility under Vladimir Putin. The book also assesses the NIC’s recently expanded role in direct support to meetings of the National Security Council as well as its longstanding part in generating longer-range strategic intelligence.