How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

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A former Director of GCHQ and Cabinet Office security and intelligence coordinator turned academic, Omand is a well-qualified guide. Behalve aan het werk van inlichtingendiensten, besteedt Omand in het laatste deel van zijn boek uitvoerig aandacht aan de verstrekkende, nadelige politieke en maatschappelijke gevolgen van de informatierevolutie. The book offers some useful lessons and formulae, but fails to go further in the nitty gritty of how an intelligent analyst uses these best.

My main issue is towards the end, where I think he cops-out from the logical conclusion of his analysis.

Na pewno jednym z najbardziej interesujących zagadnień jest problem misinformacji, dezinformacji i fake-newsów.

However, on my reading his response to the threat of disinformation is to promote (or endorse) actions by states and social-media corporations to crack down on the telling of mistruths. Z ostrożnością, z dystansem i rozwagą będę starała się podchodzić do wszelkich wiadomości, choć na super agenta i analityka nie mam zadatków😉.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. In summary, one finds valuable reflections about both very important and very actual topics about humans in cyberspace in this book; that alone is worth the read.

It is not a glamourous job and often involves long hours watching and waiting for a target or asset to make a move. die de zogenaamde wet van de spaarzaamheid hanteerde en als eerste het kentheoretische uitgangspunt formuleerde dat de simpelste verklaring meestal de juiste verklaring is.Another important lesson is that every fact should support proper explanation and every prediction should support valid data. I think that this would have been a great easy read on a transatlantic flight, were we not in the middle of the pandemic.