Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy

“Sherman Kent . . . brings thorough scholarship and practical experience to the consideration of a subject of primary importance to those charged with the responsibility for the foreign policy and security of this country and of vital concern to the rest of us who would suffer the awful consequences of their failure.”—New York Times

“Required reading. . . . [Kent] has gone further than any other writer to describe and to examine critically the Intelligence method as wartime experience taught us it should be practised.”—Saturday Review

“[Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy] deals not with the policy issues themselves but with the problems which must be resolved if policy-makers are to make informed decisions. . . . A stimulating book.”—Political Science Quarterly

“A clear and closely reasoned analysis of the organization and functions of a modern high-level strategic intelligence service.”—South Atlantic Quarterly