How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

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e. ‘deliberate us of true information obtained covertly that was never intended to become public’, zoals de persoonlijke e-mails van presidentskandidaat Hillary Clinton).

Partnerships endure when both parties bring something different to the table (for example, the UK’s expertise and the USA’s resources). In this book, Omand takes us through the process behind this system in ten lessons and provides lots of examples of how he used these techniques in his time in government and as the director of GCHQ. A well-studied lesson of the dangers of misinterpreting complex situations is the "security dilemma" when rearmament steps taken by one nation with purely defensive intent trigger fears in a potential adversary.

Both have a similar kind of message that one needs to be careful with the world when surrounded and bombarded with information from various sources, with various degrees of freedom and truthfulness. It's not easy giving Omand's "How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence" three stars but the work doesn't quite reach four stars. Looking through the eyes of one of Britain's most senior ex-intelligence officers, Professor Sir David Omand, How Spies Think shows how the big decisions in your life will be easier to make when you apply the same frameworks used by British intelligence.

Vergaring en verwerking van geheime informatie dient immers geen enkel doel als de afnemer niet wordt bereikt of er niet mee uit de voeten kan. My main issue is towards the end, where I think he cops-out from the logical conclusion of his analysis.Recommended for anyone interested in intelligence analysts, intelligence history, or being a bit more intelligent about their own understanding of world events. The lesson he provides in an approach to critical thinking and analysis are as applicable in the world of government policy analysis, business development or investing as they are in the intelligence realm. Sedition and subversion have happened throughout history between and by nations, but the fact that it now no longer requires agents on the ground has changed the game.

We always tend to believe that people working in intelligent department use different ways of thinking actually not.

It is very detailed, which is kind of what I would expect from someone of his calibre and experience in the role. Apparently confirmatory evidence on the other hand can still be consistent with other hypotheses being true. Als directeur van GCHQ, het Britse equivalent van de Amerikaanse National Security Agency, zou hij in de jaren negentig van de vorige eeuw zijn organisatie als een van de eerste inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten het internettijdperk inleiden.

Het sociologische perspectief op internationale inlichtingensamenwerking is tot dusver in de wetenschap onderbelicht gebleven. I think that this would have been a great easy read on a transatlantic flight, were we not in the middle of the pandemic. Wie verwacht dat de ‘spionnen’ uit de titel van het boek lijken op de personages uit de boeken van Ian Flemming of John le Carré, komt bedrogen uit, al komen Le Carré’s belangrijkste personage George Smiley en diens roman Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy kort even om de hoek kijken wanneer Omand beschrijft hoe inlichtingenanalisten hun hypotheses voortdurend aan nieuwe informatie toetsen (148-9). Zijn wetenschappelijke activiteiten komen verder tot uitdrukking in artikelen en inmiddels een drietal boeken.De methode draagt ertoe bij dat de beschikbaarheid van wezenlijk nieuwe informatie metterdaad leidt tot aanpassing van analyses of, in de termen die de Nederlandse inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten hanteren, van het ‘normbeeld’. YES: How Spies Think is truly essential reading for anyone looking to understanding our modern, digitised world. Omand warns that cognitive bias can ruin your decision-making, discusses what makes strategic partnerships go the distance and lays out the threat of digital subversion to unprepared democracies.