Strategic Intelligence Management

Strategic Intelligence Management
Author: Babak Akhgar
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0124072194

Strategic Intelligence Management introduces both academic researchers and law enforcement professionals to contemporary issues of national security and information management and analysis. This contributed volume draws on state-of-the-art expertise from academics and law enforcement practitioners across the globe. The chapter authors provide background, analysis, and insight on specific topics and case studies. Strategic Intelligent Management explores the technological and social aspects of managing information for contemporary national security imperatives. Academic researchers and graduate students in computer science, information studies, social science, law, terrorism studies, and politics, as well as professionals in the police, law enforcement, security agencies, and government policy organizations will welcome this authoritative and wide-ranging discussion of emerging threats. - Hot topics like cyber terrorism, Big Data, and Somali pirates, addressed in terms the layperson can understand, with solid research grounding - Fills a gap in existing literature on intelligence, technology, and national security

National Security Intelligence and Ethics

National Security Intelligence and Ethics
Author: Seumas Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-11-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 100050445X

This volume examines the ethical issues that arise as a result of national security intelligence collection and analysis. Powerful new technologies enable the collection, communication and analysis of national security data on an unprecedented scale. Data collection now plays a central role in intelligence practice, yet this development raises a host of ethical and national security problems, such as privacy; autonomy; threats to national security and democracy by foreign states; and accountability for liberal democracies. This volume provides a comprehensive set of in-depth ethical analyses of these problems by combining contributions from both ethics scholars and intelligence practitioners. It provides the reader with a practical understanding of relevant operations, the issues that they raise and analysis of how responses to these issues can be informed by a commitment to liberal democratic values. This combination of perspectives is crucial in providing an informed appreciation of ethical challenges that is also grounded in the realities of the practice of intelligence. This book will be of great interest to all students of intelligence studies, ethics, security studies, foreign policy and international relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq

Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq
Author: James P. Pfiffner
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781603440677

"Drawing on the unusually extensive official documentation that has emerged through multiple inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as insider accounts of CIA deliberations, the contributors to this volume offer careful and insightful analyses of the national security decision-making process, the foreign policy roles of the President and Prime Minister, the roles of Congress and Parliament, the management and limits of intelligence, the shaping of public opinion, and the ethics of humanitarian military intervention. The book also discusses the dilemmas faced by Australia, a junior ally in the War on Terror, and their implications for Australian intelligence."--BOOK JACKET.

Buying National Security

Buying National Security
Author: Gordon Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135172927

Examines the planning and budgeting processes of the United States. This title describes the planning and resource integration activities of the White House, reviews the adequacy of the structures and process and makes proposals for ways both might be reformed to fit the demands of the 21st century security environment.

Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise

Knowledge Management in the Intelligence Enterprise
Author: Edward Waltz
Publisher: Artech House
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1580534945

If you are responsible for the management of an intelligence enterprise operation and its timely and accurate delivery of reliable intelligence to key decision-makers, this book is must reading. It is the first easy-to-understand, system-level book that specifically applies knowledge management principles, practices and technologies to the intelligence domain. The book describes the essential principles of intelligence, from collection, processing and analysis, to dissemination for both national intelligence and business applications.

The National Security Enterprise

The National Security Enterprise
Author: Roger Z. George
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 162616441X

This second edition of The National Security Enterprise provides practitioners’ insights into the operation, missions, and organizational cultures of the principal national security agencies and other institutions that shape the US national security decision-making process. Unlike some textbooks on American foreign policy, it offers analysis from insiders who have worked at the National Security Council, the State and Defense Departments, the intelligence community, and the other critical government entities. The book explains how organizational missions and cultures create the labyrinth in which a coherent national security policy must be fashioned. Understanding and appreciating these organizations and their cultures is essential for formulating and implementing it. Taking into account the changes introduced by the Obama administration, the second edition includes four new or entirely revised chapters (Congress, Department of Homeland Security, Treasury, and USAID) and updates to the text throughout. It covers changes instituted since the first edition was published in 2011, implications of the government campaign to prosecute leaks, and lessons learned from more than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. This up-to-date book will appeal to students of US national security and foreign policy as well as career policymakers.

Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security

Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security
Author: Jan Goldman
Publisher: Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781442260160

Building on Goldman's Words of Intelligence and Maret's On Their Own Terms this is a one-stop reference tool for anyone studying and working in intelligence, security, and information policy. This comprehensive resource defines key terms of the theoretical, conceptual, and organizational aspects of intelligence and national security information policy. It explains security classifications, surveillance, risk, technology, as well as intelligence operations, strategies, boards and organizations, and methodologies. It also defines terms created by the U.S. legislative, regulatory, and policy process, and routinized by various branches of the U.S. government. These terms pertain to federal procedures, policies, and practices involving the information life cycle, national security controls over information, and collection and analysis of intelligence information. This work is intended for intelligence students and professionals at all levels, as well as information science students dealing with such issues as the Freedom of Information Act.

Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security

Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security
Author: Hsinchun Chen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006-06-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0387303324

Reflects a decade of leading-edge research on intelligence and security informatics. Dr Chen is researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the NSF COPLINK Center for Homeland Security Information Technology Research. Describes real-world community situations. Targets wide-ranging audience: from researchers in computer science, information management and information science via analysts and policy makers in federal departments and national laboratories to consultants in IT hardware, communication, and software companies.

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence
Author: Loch K. Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2010-03-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199888477

The Oxford Handbook of National Security Intelligence is a state-of-the-art work on intelligence and national security. Edited by Loch Johnson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, the handbook examines the topic in full, beginning with an examination of the major theories of intelligence. It then shifts its focus to how intelligence agencies operate, how they collect information from around the world, the problems that come with transforming "raw" information into credible analysis, and the difficulties in disseminating intelligence to policymakers. It also considers the balance between secrecy and public accountability, and the ethical dilemmas that covert and counterintelligence operations routinely present to intelligence agencies. Throughout, contributors factor in broader historical and political contexts that are integral to understanding how intelligence agencies function in our information-dominated age.