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

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quiggin, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : [Singapore] : World Scientific ; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 246 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242) and index.
ISBN:9789812707451
981270745X
1281121436
9781281121431