Building the Antilibrary
New acquisitions….
Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina by Dr. Bernard Fall
The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture by “Ishmael Jones“
Sadly, my effort to “stay on the wagon” and refrain from the purchase of books until I wade through some of my unread shelves is failing miserably. I also think this will be a COIN heavy year for the 2010 reading list.
ADDENDUM:
My colleague, Lexington Green, points to this fine review of The Human Factor by fellow Chicago Boyz blogger, James McCormick:
Mini-Book Review – Jones – The Human Factor
….Other reviews of this book have proclaimed Human Factor a rather boring recollection of examples of institutional ineptitude and better as a guidebook for potential employees than a useful description of the CIA but I feel this is in fact the most useful book on the CIA’s clandestine service since:
Orrin Deforest and David Chanoff, Slow Burn: The Rise and Bitter Fall of American Intelligence in Vietnam, Simon & Schuster, 1990, 294 pp.
David Atlee Phillips, The Night Watch: 25 Years of Peculiar Service, Atheneum, 1977, 309 pp.
which covered clandestine case officer activities, first person, in Vietnam and Latin America.
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