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Autore: | Quiggin Thomas |
Titolo: | Seeing the invisible [[electronic resource] ] : national security intelligence in an uncertain age / / Thomas Quiggin |
Pubblicazione: | Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355/.033 |
Soggetto topico: | National security |
Security, International | |
Intelligence service | |
National security - Economic aspects | |
Security, International - Economic aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Seeing the invisible |
ISBN: | 1-281-12143-6 |
9786611121433 | |
981-270-745-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910450679003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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