Seeing the Invisible
Thomas Quiggin
Sold by Galisteo Consulting Group Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Add to basketSold by Galisteo Consulting Group Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since January 9, 2026
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketUsed - very good+. Paperback. 2007 edition from World Scientific. Internally pristine?bright, white, and appears unread with an uncreased spine. Exterior is Very Good; showing a slight compression/crush to the bottom right corner of the rear board and a minor edge-dent to the back cover. A very sharp, crisp copy of this scarce intelligence study.
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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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