Seeing the invisible : national security intelligence in an uncertain age /
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| Author / Creator: | Quiggin, Thomas. |
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| Imprint: | Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific ; [Singapore] : S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, ©2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11155275 |
| Summary: | 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 the dots and avoiding future failures. It argues that this cannot and will not happen for a variety of reasons. Instead of seeking to predict discrete future events, the strategic intelligence community must focus rather on risk-based anticipatory warnings concerning the nature and impact of a range of potential threats. In this respect, the book argues for a full and creative exploitation of technology to support -- but not supplant -- the work of the strategic intelligence community, and illustrates this ideal with reference to Singapore's path-breaking Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning (RAHS) program. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789812707451 981270745X 1281121436 9781281121431 9789812704825 9812704825 |