Special duty : a history of the Japanese intelligence community /
Richard J. Samuels.
- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Driving intelligence -- Expanding special duties (1895-1945) -- Accommodating defeat (1945-1991) -- Tinkering with failure (1991-2001) -- Reimagining possibilities (2001-2013) -- Reengineering the intelligence community (2013- ) -- The past and future of Japanese intelligence.
"Two decades into the 21st century, after more than a century of dangerously uneven performance that contributed to national devastation and often uncomfortable subordination to their powerful U.S. ally, Japanese leaders have begun to reinvent their nation's flawed intelligence community"--