Words of Intelligence A Dictionary

Intended as the intelligence community's manual of style, Words of Warning: A Lexicon for Warning Intelligence, Forecasting, Crisis, and Threat Management, provides the definitions of more than 400 words and phrases unique to local, state, and federal homeland security warning centers. The author is the director of strategic warning and threat management for the only accredited federal institution that offers a degree in intelligence, and he has used this material with the federal government in establishing warning and crisis management centers. Completely current, federal agencies, private companies, and colleges and universities will find this glossary to be a valuable reference tool.

Jan Goldman is a professor of strategic warning and threat management at the Joint Military Intelligence College in Washington, D.C.