Books written by David Omand

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  Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence

  Carol J. Williams, “Poland Feels Sting of Betrayal over CIA 'Black Site,'” Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-poland-cia -blacksite-20150510-story.html. Intelligence and Security Committee, ...

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  How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence

  LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2021 'One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5 'An ...

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  Securing the State

  Drawing on decades of experience as a security analyst and political insider, David Omand argues that while public security is necessary for good government, the erosion of civil liberties, however slight, tips the balance in favor of bad ...

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  Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence

  This is one of the great unresolved issues of public policy, and it sits at the heart of broader debates concerning the relationship between the citizen and the state.

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  Principled Spying: The Ethics of Secret Intelligence

  This book is accessible reading for concerned citizens, but it also delivers the sophisticated insights of a high-ranking former practitioner and a distinguished scholar.

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  Securing The State

  Securing the State provides a new way of thinking about the cycle of activities that generates secret intelligence, examines the issues that arise from the way that modern intelligence uses technology to access new sources of information, ...

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  How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster

  'This book is the instruction manual we all need' SIR ALEX YOUNGER, CHIEF OF MI6