Seeing the invisible [[electronic resource] ] : national security intelligence in an uncertain age / / Thomas Quiggin
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| Autore: |
Quiggin Thomas
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| Titolo: |
Seeing the invisible [[electronic resource] ] : national security intelligence in an uncertain age / / Thomas Quiggin
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| 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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