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

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Author / Creator:Quiggin, Thomas.
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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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11155275
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ISBN:9789812707451
981270745X
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9781281121431
9789812704825
9812704825
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
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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 th.
Other form:Print version: Quiggin, Thomas. Seeing the invisible. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific ; [Singapore] : S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, ©2007 9789812704825 9812704825

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