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1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index. |
| Contents |
The Plan of the Book -- Understanding National Security -- The Complex and Uncertain International Security Environment -- Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Surprise Attacks -- Ancient and Modern Assessments: Common Problems -- Reinforcing Intelligence Failures -- Technology and Intelligence -- Faint Signals -- More Faint Signals Being Missed? -- National Security Intelligence and the Front Line Requirements -- Open Source Intelligence -- Anticipating Future Threats: The Problem Areas -- Anticipating Future Threats: The Areas of Strength -- The Singapore Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning Process -- Rethinking National Security Intelligence -- National Security and Education: Thinking Across the Boundaries of Time and Specialization. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National security.
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National security. |
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Security, International.
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Security, International. |
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Intelligence service.
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Intelligence service. |
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National security -- Economic aspects.
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National security -- Economic aspects. |
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Security, International -- Economic aspects.
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Security, International -- Economic aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Quiggin, Thomas. Seeing the invisible. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific ; [Singapore] : S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, ©2007 9789812704825 9812704825 (DLC) 2006053268 (OCoLC)77522518 |
| ISBN |
9789812707451 (electronic book) |
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981270745X (electronic book) |
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1281121436 |
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9781281121431 |
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