Isabelle Duyvesteyn is a senior lecturer/researcher at the Department of History of International Relations at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She works in the area of war and peace studies and has published previously on terrorism, insurgency, civil war and strategy.

This book looks at the influence of the strategic and cultural outlook of the United States and the United Kingdom on the production and dissemination of intelligence for political decision-making.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.

1. Foreword: Intelligence and Strategic Culture: Essays on American and British Praxis since the Second World War Joop van Reijn 2. Hearts and Minds, Cultural Awareness and Good Intelligence: The Blueprint for Successful Counter-insurgency? Isabelle Duyvesteyn 3. 'The Sharp End of the Intelligence Machine': The Rise of the Malayan Police Special Branch 1948-1955 Georgina Sinclair 4. Sins of Omission and Commission: Strategic Cultural Factors and U.S. Intelligence Failures During the Cold War Matthew M. Aid 5. All that Glitters is Not Gold: the 1953 Coup against Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran Andreas Etges 6. British Intelligence Failures in Iraq John N. L. Morrison 7. Intelligence and Strategic Culture: Some Observations Isabelle Duyvesteyn