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This second edition covers the history of United States intelligence, and includes several key features: Chronology Introductory essayAppendixesBibliographyOver 600 cross-referenced entries on key events, issues, people, operations, laws, regulations

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Ireland and Irish agricultural history in context -- The European context -- The structure of the book -- 2 Agricultural change -- Introduction -- National land-use change -- The agricultural depression of 1859-1864 -- Regional land-use change -- Livestock trends -- Animal exports to Britain -- Conclusion -- 3 The occupation of the land -- Introduction -- The Famine and pre-Famine statistical base -- Post-Famine longitudinal changes -- Land and livestock distributions and the average size of holdings -- Post-Famine regional considerations -- Conclusion -- 4 The product of the land: output -- Introduction -- Estimation problems -- New estimates of agricultural output -- The distribution of output -- The 'real' volume of final agricultural output -- Output and the agricultural depression of 1859-1864 -- Conclusion -- 5 The performance of agriculture -- Introduction -- Relative performance of Irish and British agriculture -- Partial factor productivity performance in Irish agriculture -- Total factor productivity in Irish agriculture -- Physical output in Irish agriculture -- Conclusion - the search for perspective -- 6 Labour and the working of the land -- Introduction -- Conflicting models: labour constraint or market forces? -- A methodology -- Establishing labour inputs -- Labour usage in Irish agriculture -- Labour profitability -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion - structure, output and performance, and the distribution of the spoils -- Introduction -- Rising expectations and the economic origins of the Land War of the 1880s -- Agriculture and Irish independence -- Conclusion -- Appendixes: A note on the origin of the data -- Appendix 1 Annual agricultural statistics, 1847-1914

"Why Secret Intelligence Fails provides a frank discussion of the problems of the American intelligence community. While examining the causes of intelligence failures, the book also explores how the intelligence community functions, making it an excellent primer on secret intelligence. Rather than focusing on case studies, the book takes a holistic approach, beginning with structural issues and all the dysfunctions that emanate from them. Michael Turner explores each step of the intelligence cycle - priority setting, intelligence collection, analysis, production, and dissemination - to identify the "inflection points" within each stage that contribute to intelligence failures. Finally, he examines a variety of plans that, if implemented, would improve American intelligence."--Jacket