Intelligence for a Complex Environment – Bram Spoor
This study asserts that complexity science, the study of systems that are complex and adaptive, holds many promises for examining the threats in the operational environment as well…
Publications
Smart intelligence cooperation – Dr. A. Claver
On 25-26 October 2023 the Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA) held its bi-annual international conference in Amsterdam. Founded in 1991 the NISA aims to further academic research and…
INTELLIGENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY – Erich Schmidt-Eenboom
This bibliography on intelligence numbers almost a thousand pages and runs up to 2008. It contains publications in English, German, French and Dutch and was put together by Erich…
Lucien Conein, Legendary OSS, Special Forces and CIA Officer – Forgotten by the USASOC History Office?
by Jelle Hooiveld The USASOC History Office caused quite a stir in the US Special Forces and Intelligence community with its eyebrow-raising article about OSS influence on Special…
Loyalty and Secret Intelligence: Anglo‒Dutch Cooperation during World War II door Eleni Braat
Secrecy and informal organisation produce, sustain, and reinforce feelings of loyalty within intelligence and security services. This article demonstrates that loyalty is needed for cooperation between intelligence partners…
The Return of Political Warfare by Danny Pronk
The West currently faces a number of actors who employ a wide range of measures to influence, coerce, intimidate, or undermine its interests. Many of these measures are…
Stepping Stones to Freedom: Help to Allied Airmen in The Netherlands During World War II door Bob de Graaff
The book, Stepping Stones to Freedom: Help to Allied Airmen in The Netherlands During World War II, by Professor Bob de Graaff was originally published in Dutch as Schakels naar de vrijheid by…
How the Dutch intelligence service (BVD) prevented the hijacking of a train by Syrian terrorist in 1975
Kees Jan Dellebeke In 1975 four Syrians intended to hijack an international train with Russian Jews in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but following a tip-off by the Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst…
Perspectives on Military Intelligence from the First World War to Mali
The book is the result of the conference "Telling the truth to power: the past, present end future of militairy inteliigence" organised by NISA in cooperation with the…
The Handbook of European Intelligence Cultures
door Bob de Graaff e.a National intelligence cultures are shaped by their country’s history and environment. Featuring 32 countries (such as Albania, Belgium, Croatia, Norway, Latvia, Montenegro), the…
Ethics of counterterrorism – redactie Michael Kowalski
The terrorist attacks that have been haunting European capitals show us that counterterrorism is necessary and essential in modern day society. The intelligence services and other organisations active…
Official Intelligence Histories. Is there a Problem? door Ben de Jong
Over the past twenty years or so, intelligence and security services in several Western countries and in Russia as well have allowed official histories to be published. Authors, in…