Carl Anthony Wege
Biographic Data
| ID | 6187301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Anthony Wege |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Wege |
| SIGNATURE | WEGE C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Coastal Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Defeating Hezbollah: Surface Area Vulnerabilities of Hard Targets
While Hezbollah began as an ideologically cohesive and virtually impenetrable entity, its evolution into a bureaucratic, transnational actor created vulnerabilities across its personnel, communications, logistics, and political networks. These vulnerabilities, holistically described using the concept of a surface area, can be systematically mapped and exploited through a series of definable vulnerabilities. Drawing on historical examples and rece…
An Officer of Great Intent: Norman Ridley: Reinhard Gehlen: Hitler’s Spymaster. Frontline Books an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2025, 256 p., $37.95 Hardcover
Norman Ridley, living in the Channel Islands, has written several other books on Nazi Germany and on intelligence matters during the war. His narrative on Reinhard Gehlen seems to be a relatively b
Karel Koecher’s Walking Profile of Unsuitability: Benjamin Cunningham: The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man Public Affairs, part of the Hachette Book Group, Ne…
Imminent Revolution: Shay Hershkovitz: The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2022, 165 p., $90.00 (hardcover…
The author of this brief but rather remarkable book cogently raises essential issues for twenty-first-century intelligence organizations. Shay Hershkovitz received his Ph.D. in political science fr
Ebb and Flow of Wartime Intelligence: Nigel West: Secret War: The Story of SOE Britain’s Wartime Sabotage Organization Frontline Books, Barnsley, 2019, 362 p., $29.95 (hardcover)
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarl Anthony WegeCarl Anthony Wege, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, Georgia, is the author of dozens of articles discussing terrorism and security relationships involving Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly publications. The author can be contacted at [email protected] His writing career began in London dur…
Remaking the Human Experience: Jack A. Jarmon: The New Era in U.S. National Security: Challenges of the Information Age (2nd ed.) Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London, 2020, 362 p…
Unsung War Heroes
The book is written under the pseudonym “Eddie Idrees” and fills a gap in the 2001 to 2021 Afghan War literature, telling the story of an Afghan interpreter who worked initially with American Speci
Evading Secret Police: Counterintelligence Vulnerabilities in Authoritarian States
The authoritarian impulse has characterized human governance through most of recorded history, and popular resistance to the same has waxed and waned with the intellectual currents and conditions of the day. There is little in the open literature, however, that considers the common counterintelligence vulnerabilities of contemporary authoritarian states. Growing out of the traditional authoritarianisms, our century is seeing the emergence of a mo…
Selling Terrorism: Lisa Merriam and Milton Kotler: Weaponized Marketing: Defeating Islamic Jihad with Marketing That Built the World’s Top Brands , Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2020, 153 p., $30.…
Lisa Merriam and Milton Kotler have done a remarkable job of exploring a gap in existing literature respecting techniques for countering jihadist radicalization. While this book is rather succinct
Counterintelligence Vetting Techniques Compared across Multiple Domains
This discussion examines how security and counterintelligence vetting practices vary across domains and how this informs our understanding of counterintelligence disciplines. Organizations in each domain must ensure that persons admitted as insiders can be trusted with sensitive information and the organization’s security. We look at some examples of counterintelligence vetting, seeking commonalities in vetting needs and practices between armed g…
Overt Chronicle of Covert Operations: Annie Jacobsen: Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins Little, Brown and Company, New York, Boston, Londo…
In Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Annie Jacobsen—a Princeton graduate, acclaimed New York Times journalist, and Pulitzer Prize finalist—compiles archive sources and hundreds of hours of interviews with cu
Iranian Counterintelligence
The Changing Islamic State Intelligence Apparatus
In many ways Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS, or Daesh) is the real successor to al-Qaeda.1 A natural outgrowth of the Iraqi Salafi organization, it was created by Abu Masoud a
Jihadis in Africa
As Africa has become an increasingly important venue for Islamist movements, Alexander Thurston’s Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement fills a significant gap in the literature o
The Threat From Dangerous Idealists
Joby Warrick: Black Flags: The Rise of ISISDoubleday, New York, 2015, 344 p., $28.95.The Washington Post's Joby Warrick has written a chilling narrative depicting gathering Islamist armies resolved
Anticipatory Intelligence and the Post-Syrian War Hezbollah Intelligence Apparatus
Historically, an observer could be forgiven for thinking that the art of fortune telling had been disguised by scientism and sold to national policymakers using descriptions like Estimative Intelli
Hezbollah's Communication System: A Most Important Weapon
During the two generations of Hezbollah's existence the organization has grown from a clan-based network of terrorist cells to the most important stakeholder in the Lebanese polity. Its communicati
Tehran's Force for Power
Steven O'Hern: Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps Potomac Books, Washington, DC, 2012, 271 p., $29.95. Steven O'Hern's Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC or Pasdar
Hizballah's Counterintelligence Apparatus
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarl Anthony WegeCarl Anthony Wege became a full Professor of Political Science at the College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, in 2005, having been with the institution since 1989. A graduate of Portland (Oregon) State University, with an M.S. from the University of Wyoming, he did Ph.D. work at the University of Idaho. Professor Wege has written extensively on Middle East issues in various academic journ…
Hizbollah-Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience
Since the 1980s, Hizbollah has emerged as the guardian of Lebanon's Shi'a and a stalking horse for Iran. Syria, though allied with Tehran, seeks to manage Hizbollah's freedom of action in Lebanon and is eyed cautiously in Damascus. Hizbollah has managed to maintain independence from these Syrian efforts because of both Lebanese Shi'a religious élan and the protection given Hizbollah by its Shi'a allies in Iran
Iranian intelligence organizations
The Syrian socialist party: An intelligence asset
(1994). The Syrian socialist party: An intelligence asset? International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 339-351
Hizbollah organization
There is a dearth of information in the open literature with a direct focus on the Hizbollah organization. Symptomatic of the shortcomings of the existing literature is the tendency to analyze Islamist movements in general with only peripheral reference to specific organizational entities such as Hizbollah. This paper will examine the development of the Hizbollah organization in the context of the Lebanese civil war, address its emergence in Amal…
The Abu Nidal organization
In recent years, the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) has been politically marginalized. The current Gulf crisis may serve to reinvigorate the ANO as a significant actor in the Middle East. As an organization with its raison d'être rooted in violence, there is a paucity of literature concerning the ANO. It is, therefore, a useful exercise to collect and collate available information to construct a study of this organization
Assad's legions: The Syrian intelligence services
Hizbollah organization
There is a dearth of information in the open literature with a direct focus on the Hizbollah organization. Symptomatic of the shortcomings of the existing literature is the tendency to analyze Islamist movements in general with only peripheral reference to specific organizational entities such as Hizbollah. This paper will examine the development of the Hizbollah organization in the context of the Lebanese civil war, address its emergence in Amal…
Assad's legions: The Syrian intelligence services
The Abu Nidal organization
In recent years, the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) has been politically marginalized. The current Gulf crisis may serve to reinvigorate the ANO as a significant actor in the Middle East. As an organization with its raison d'être rooted in violence, there is a paucity of literature concerning the ANO. It is, therefore, a useful exercise to collect and collate available information to construct a study of this organization
The Syrian socialist party: An intelligence asset
(1994). The Syrian socialist party: An intelligence asset? International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 339-351
Hizbollah organization
There is a dearth of information in the open literature with a direct focus on the Hizbollah organization. Symptomatic of the shortcomings of the existing literature is the tendency to analyze Islamist movements in general with only peripheral reference to specific organizational entities such as Hizbollah. This paper will examine the development of the Hizbollah organization in the context of the Lebanese civil war, address its emergence in Amal…
Iranian intelligence organizations
Hizbollah-Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience
Since the 1980s, Hizbollah has emerged as the guardian of Lebanon's Shi'a and a stalking horse for Iran. Syria, though allied with Tehran, seeks to manage Hizbollah's freedom of action in Lebanon and is eyed cautiously in Damascus. Hizbollah has managed to maintain independence from these Syrian efforts because of both Lebanese Shi'a religious élan and the protection given Hizbollah by its Shi'a allies in Iran
Hizballah's Counterintelligence Apparatus
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarl Anthony WegeCarl Anthony Wege became a full Professor of Political Science at the College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, in 2005, having been with the institution since 1989. A graduate of Portland (Oregon) State University, with an M.S. from the University of Wyoming, he did Ph.D. work at the University of Idaho. Professor Wege has written extensively on Middle East issues in various academic journ…
Tehran's Force for Power
Steven O'Hern: Iran's Revolutionary Guard: The Threat That Grows While America Sleeps Potomac Books, Washington, DC, 2012, 271 p., $29.95. Steven O'Hern's Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC or Pasdar
Hezbollah's Communication System: A Most Important Weapon
During the two generations of Hezbollah's existence the organization has grown from a clan-based network of terrorist cells to the most important stakeholder in the Lebanese polity. Its communicati
The Threat From Dangerous Idealists
Joby Warrick: Black Flags: The Rise of ISISDoubleday, New York, 2015, 344 p., $28.95.The Washington Post's Joby Warrick has written a chilling narrative depicting gathering Islamist armies resolved
Anticipatory Intelligence and the Post-Syrian War Hezbollah Intelligence Apparatus
Historically, an observer could be forgiven for thinking that the art of fortune telling had been disguised by scientism and sold to national policymakers using descriptions like Estimative Intelli
The Changing Islamic State Intelligence Apparatus
In many ways Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, IS, or Daesh) is the real successor to al-Qaeda.1 A natural outgrowth of the Iraqi Salafi organization, it was created by Abu Masoud a
Jihadis in Africa
As Africa has become an increasingly important venue for Islamist movements, Alexander Thurston’s Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement fills a significant gap in the literature o
Iranian Counterintelligence
Overt Chronicle of Covert Operations: Annie Jacobsen: Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins Little, Brown and Company, New York, Boston, Londo…
In Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Annie Jacobsen—a Princeton graduate, acclaimed New York Times journalist, and Pulitzer Prize finalist—compiles archive sources and hundreds of hours of interviews with cu
Selling Terrorism: Lisa Merriam and Milton Kotler: Weaponized Marketing: Defeating Islamic Jihad with Marketing That Built the World’s Top Brands , Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2020, 153 p., $30.…
Lisa Merriam and Milton Kotler have done a remarkable job of exploring a gap in existing literature respecting techniques for countering jihadist radicalization. While this book is rather succinct
Counterintelligence Vetting Techniques Compared across Multiple Domains
This discussion examines how security and counterintelligence vetting practices vary across domains and how this informs our understanding of counterintelligence disciplines. Organizations in each domain must ensure that persons admitted as insiders can be trusted with sensitive information and the organization’s security. We look at some examples of counterintelligence vetting, seeking commonalities in vetting needs and practices between armed g…
Ebb and Flow of Wartime Intelligence: Nigel West: Secret War: The Story of SOE Britain’s Wartime Sabotage Organization Frontline Books, Barnsley, 2019, 362 p., $29.95 (hardcover)
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCarl Anthony WegeCarl Anthony Wege, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the College of Coastal Georgia, Brunswick, Georgia, is the author of dozens of articles discussing terrorism and security relationships involving Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly publications. The author can be contacted at [email protected] His writing career began in London dur…
Remaking the Human Experience: Jack A. Jarmon: The New Era in U.S. National Security: Challenges of the Information Age (2nd ed.) Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London, 2020, 362 p…
Unsung War Heroes
The book is written under the pseudonym “Eddie Idrees” and fills a gap in the 2001 to 2021 Afghan War literature, telling the story of an Afghan interpreter who worked initially with American Speci
Evading Secret Police: Counterintelligence Vulnerabilities in Authoritarian States
The authoritarian impulse has characterized human governance through most of recorded history, and popular resistance to the same has waxed and waned with the intellectual currents and conditions of the day. There is little in the open literature, however, that considers the common counterintelligence vulnerabilities of contemporary authoritarian states. Growing out of the traditional authoritarianisms, our century is seeing the emergence of a mo…
Karel Koecher’s Walking Profile of Unsuitability: Benjamin Cunningham: The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man Public Affairs, part of the Hachette Book Group, Ne…
Imminent Revolution: Shay Hershkovitz: The Future of National Intelligence: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Intelligence Communities Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2022, 165 p., $90.00 (hardcover…
The author of this brief but rather remarkable book cogently raises essential issues for twenty-first-century intelligence organizations. Shay Hershkovitz received his Ph.D. in political science fr
An Officer of Great Intent: Norman Ridley: Reinhard Gehlen: Hitler’s Spymaster. Frontline Books an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2025, 256 p., $37.95 Hardcover
Norman Ridley, living in the Channel Islands, has written several other books on Nazi Germany and on intelligence matters during the war. His narrative on Reinhard Gehlen seems to be a relatively b
Defeating Hezbollah: Surface Area Vulnerabilities of Hard Targets
While Hezbollah began as an ideologically cohesive and virtually impenetrable entity, its evolution into a bureaucratic, transnational actor created vulnerabilities across its personnel, communications, logistics, and political networks. These vulnerabilities, holistically described using the concept of a surface area, can be systematically mapped and exploited through a series of definable vulnerabilities. Drawing on historical examples and rece…
Political science (22 works) · Law (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (11 works) · Counterintelligence (10 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (10 works) · Computer security (7 works) · History (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (5 works)