Seeing the invisible: national security intelligence in an uncertain age
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1. Verfasser: Quiggin, Thomas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Singapore World Scientific c2007
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242) and index
The Plan of the Book -- Understanding National Security -- The Complex and Uncertain International Security Environment -- Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Surprise Attacks -- Ancient and Modern Assessments: Common Problems -- Reinforcing Intelligence Failures -- Technology and Intelligence -- Faint Signals -- More Faint Signals Being Missed? -- National Security Intelligence and the Front Line Requirements -- Open Source Intelligence -- Anticipating Future Threats: The Problem Areas -- Anticipating Future Threats: The Areas of Strength -- The Singapore Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Process -- Rethinking National Security Intelligence -- National Security and Education: Thinking Across the Boundaries of Time and Specialization
Intelligence is critical to ensuring national security, especially with asymmetric threats making up most of the new challenges. Knowledge, rather than power, is the only weapon that can prevail in a complex and uncertain environment awash with asymmetric threats, some known, many currently unknown. This book shows how such a changing national security environment has had profound implications for the strategic intelligence requirements of states in the 21st century. The book shows up the fallacy underlying the age-old assumption that intelligence agencies must do a better job of connecting th
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ISBN:9789812707451
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