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In a real tour de force, Jennifer Sims develops and deploys a broadened concept of intelligence to show how it can lead to a decision advantage that affects the course of history. The cases studied are unusual and extraordinarily well done. This important book is a pleasure to read and deserves a wide audience. -Robert Jervis, author of Why Intelligence Fails Jennifer Sims takes the reader on a fascinating tour of intelligence failures and successes from the Spanish Armada to today's post-911 world. Her rigorous analysis reminds us that intelligence in war does not need to be perfect; it just needs to be better than the intelligence on the enemy's side. -Scott D. Sagan, Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, Stanford University The concept 'decision advantage' is central to the mission of U.S. intelligence * providing policy makers with intelligence to give them an information advantage over other international actors. Indeed, the term 'decision advantage' figures prominently in a display in the offices of the Director of National Intelligence. Jennifer Sims, a long time intelligence veteran, is properly credited with originating the concept and its definition. She has now taken this concept and examined how it worked across a range of historic policy dilemmas, from the threat posed to England by the Spanish Armada to the current issue of cyberspace. Dr. Sims has produced a thoughtful and provocative study that bridges intelligence theory and intelligence history. -Mark M. Lowenthal, Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis & Production (2002-05), and author of Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy *

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Jennifer E. Sims is a non-resident Senior Fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Before this residency, Sims was a core faculty member and Director of Intelligence Studies in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service while also serving as a presidential appointee on the USG's Public Interest Declassification Board (2008-2011) and as a member Director of National Intelligence's Senior Advisory Group. During her more than ten years of US government service, Dr. Sims was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination (1994-1998) and Intelligence Advisor to the Under Secretary for Management and Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and Planning at the US Department of State (1998-2001). In 1998, Dr. Sims received the Intelligence Community's highest civilian award, the National Distinguished Service Medal, for developing the concept of intelligence Support to Diplomatic Operations (SDO) and implementing it during the Balkan War with the establishment of the first Diplomatic Intelligence Support Center in Sarajevo.

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