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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784041203321

Autore

Quiggin Thomas

Titolo

Seeing the invisible : national security intelligence in an uncertain age / / Thomas Quiggin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-12143-6

9786611121433

981-270-745-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages)

Disciplina

355/.033

Soggetti

National security

Security, International

Intelligence service

National security - Economic aspects

Security, International - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

foreword; Preface; Contents; 1. The plan of the book; 2. Understanding National Security; 3. The Complex and Uncertain International security environment; 4. Strategic Intelligence Assessment and surprise attacks; 5. Ancient and Assessment: Common Problems; 6. Reinforcing intelligence Failures; 7. Technology and intelligence; 8. structure and organization: The Weakness of centralized intelligence; 9. Faint Signals; 10. More Faint Signaler Being Missed?; 11. National security intelligence and the Front Line Requirements; 12. Open Source intelligence

13. Anticipating Future Threats: The Problem Areas 14. Anticipating Future Threats: The Areas of Strength; 15. The Singapore Risk Assessment and Horizon scanning Process; 16. Rethinking National Security Intelligence; Appendix A: National security and Education: Thing Across the Boundaries of Time and specialization; Bibliography; index

Sommario/riassunto

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