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Invisible Architects: Crafting the Future of Strategic Intelligence Analysis

Author : Mehrdad Qorbani

Publisher : Bloomsberry

Page : 73 pages

File Size : 44,76 MB

Release : 2016-01-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN :

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"Invisible Architects: Crafting the Future of Strategic Intelligence Analysis" is a groundbreaking book that offers a deep dive into the intricate world of intelligence analysis. This comprehensive guide is designed for a diverse audience, including students of intelligence studies, professionals in the field, and anyone fascinated by the strategic shaping of global events. Key Features: Comprehensive Coverage: Explore the full spectrum of strategic intelligence analysis, from its historical roots to the cutting-edge methodologies shaping its future. Expert Insights: Benefit from the author's extensive experience and deep understanding of the field, providing readers with expert analysis and foresight. Real-World Case Studies: Engage with a variety of case studies that bring to life the successes, failures, and lessons learned in intelligence operations across different eras. Technological Evolution: Understand the impact of emerging technologies like AI, cyber intelligence, and big data analytics on the future of intelligence analysis. Ethical and Legal Frameworks: Navigate the complex ethical and legal considerations that are integral to responsible intelligence work in the modern world. Resource-Rich Appendices: Access a wealth of additional resources, including detailed case studies, technical guides, and listings of relevant conferences and workshops. What You Will Discover: - The unseen forces and 'invisible architects' behind major global events and decisions. - The evolving role of human intelligence in an increasingly digital world. - Strategies for adapting to and preparing for future challenges in global intelligence. - The balance between technological advancements and the timeless art of human analysis. - The importance of ethical considerations and legal compliance in intelligence operations. "Invisible Architects" is not just a book; it's an invitation to think critically and engage in the ever-evolving conversation that shapes our world. Whether you're a seasoned analyst or new to the field, this book will expand your understanding of the vital role intelligence plays in our global society. Review "Invisible Architects" is a masterful exploration of the complex world of strategic intelligence analysis. The author skillfully navigates through the history, evolution, and future of intelligence work, making it accessible to both professionals in the field and those new to the subject. The real-world case studies are particularly enlightening, offering a rare glimpse into the successes and failures of intelligence operations and their profound impact on global events. What sets this book apart is its comprehensive approach, seamlessly blending historical context with an insightful examination of modern technologies like AI and cyber intelligence. The chapters on ethical and legal considerations are thought-provoking, highlighting the delicate balance intelligence professionals must maintain in today's rapidly changing world. The inclusion of resource-rich appendices further enhances the book's value, providing readers with practical tools and additional learning materials. "Invisible Architects" is not just informative but also a compelling read, inviting readers to critically engage with the material and consider their role in the broader narrative of global intelligence. A must-read for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes dynamics that shape our world.



Threatcasting

Author : Brian David Johnson

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 26,28 MB

Release : 2022-06-01

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 303102575X

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Impending technological advances will widen an adversary’s attack plane over the next decade. Visualizing what the future will hold, and what new threat vectors could emerge, is a task that traditional planning mechanisms struggle to accomplish given the wide range of potential issues. Understanding and preparing for the future operating environment is the basis of an analytical method known as Threatcasting. It is a method that gives researchers a structured way to envision and plan for risks ten years in the future. Threatcasting uses input from social science, technical research, cultural history, economics, trends, expert interviews, and even a little science fiction to recognize future threats and design potential futures. During this human-centric process, participants brainstorm what actions can be taken to identify, track, disrupt, mitigate, and recover from the possible threats. Specifically, groups explore how to transform the future they desire into reality while avoiding an undesired future. The Threatcasting method also exposes what events could happen that indicate the progression toward an increasingly possible threat landscape. This book begins with an overview of the Threatcasting method with examples and case studies to enhance the academic foundation. Along with end-of-chapter exercises to enhance the reader’s understanding of the concepts, there is also a full project where the reader can conduct a mock Threatcasting on the topic of “the next biological public health crisis.” The second half of the book is designed as a practitioner’s handbook. It has three separate chapters (based on the general size of the Threatcasting group) that walk the reader through how to apply the knowledge from Part I to conduct an actual Threatcasting activity. This book will be useful for a wide audience (from student to practitioner) and will hopefully promote new dialogues across communities and novel developments in the area.



Policy Analysis in National Security Affairs

Author : Richard L. Kugler

Publisher : Government Printing Office

Page : 664 pages

File Size : 43,18 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9781579060701

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This book addresses how to conduct policy analysis in the field of national security, including foreign policy and defense strategy. It is a philosophical and conceptual book for helphing people think deeply, clearly, and insightfully about complex policy issues. This books reflects the viewpoint that the best policies normally come from efforts to synthesize competing camps by drawing upon the best of each of them and by combining them to forge a sensible whole. While this book is written to be reader-friendly, it aspires to in-depth scholarship.



Strategic Intelligence

Author : Douglas H. Dearth

Publisher :

Page : 478 pages

File Size : 39,85 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Intelligence service

ISBN :

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Artificial Intelligence in Banking

Author : Introbooks

Publisher :

Page : 50 pages

File Size : 25,15 MB

Release : 2020-04-07

Category :

ISBN :

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In these highly competitive times and with so many technological advancements, it is impossible for any industry to remain isolated and untouched by innovations. In this era of digital economy, the banking sector cannot exist and operate without the various digital tools offered by the ever new innovations happening in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its sub-set technologies. New technologies have enabled incredible progression in the finance industry. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have provided the investors and customers with more innovative tools, new types of financial products and a new potential for growth.According to Cathy Bessant (the Chief Operations and Technology Officer, Bank of America), AI is not just a technology discussion. It is also a discussion about data and how it is used and protected. She says, "In a world focused on using AI in new ways, we're focused on using it wisely and responsibly."



The Venice Variations

Author : Sophia Psarra

Publisher : UCL Press

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 32,12 MB

Release : 2018-04-30

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1787352390

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From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.



Strategic Information Warfare

Author : Roger C. Molander

Publisher : Rand Corporation

Page : 115 pages

File Size : 50,38 MB

Release : 1996-02-28

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0833048465

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Future U.S. national security strategy is likely to be profoundly affected by the ongoing, rapid evolution of cyberspace--the global information infrastructure--and in particular by the growing dependence of the U.S. military and other national institutions and infrastructures on potentially vulnerable elements of the U.S. national information infrastructure. To examine these effects, the authors conducted a series of exercises employing a methodology known as the Day After ... in which participants are presented with an information warfare crisis scenario and asked to advise the president on possible responses. Participants included senior national security community members and representatives from security-related telecommunications and information-systems industries. The report synthesizes the exercise results and presents the instructions from the exercise materials in their entirety.



Out of the Ordinary

Author : John Hollywood

Publisher : Rand Corporation

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 15,11 MB

Release : 2004-11-23

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0833048171

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Presents a unique approach to selecting and assembling disparate pieces of information to produce a general understanding of a threat. The Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing schema identifies atypical behavior potentially related to terror activity; puts it into context; generates and tests hypotheses; and focuses analysts' attention on the most significant findings. A supporting conceptual architecture and specific techniques for identifying and analyzing out-of-the-ordinary information are also described.



The Future of War

Author : Lawrence Freedman

Publisher : PublicAffairs

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 46,13 MB

Release : 2017-10-10

Category : History

ISBN : 1610393066

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An award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this uniquely human form of political violence. Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined, brief, and decisive, and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars-hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow, whether through a dashing land offensive, nuclear first strike, or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s, and how the boundaries between peace and war, between the military, the civilian, and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred. Freedman's account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike, and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective.



Intelligence Analysis

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 47,63 MB

Release : 2011-03-08

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0309210925

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The U.S. intelligence community (IC) is a complex human enterprise whose success depends on how well the people in it perform their work. Although often aided by sophisticated technologies, these people ultimately rely on their own intellect to identify, synthesize, and communicate the information on which the nation's security depends. The IC's success depends on having trained, motivated, and thoughtful people working within organizations able to understand, value, and coordinate their capabilities. Intelligence Analysis provides up-to-date scientific guidance for the intelligence community (IC) so that it might improve individual and group judgments, communication between analysts, and analytic processes. The papers in this volume provide the detailed evidentiary base for the National Research Council's report, Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The opening chapter focuses on the structure, missions, operations, and characteristics of the IC while the following 12 papers provide in-depth reviews of key topics in three areas: analytic methods, analysts, and organizations. Informed by the IC's unique missions and constraints, each paper documents the latest advancements of the relevant science and is a stand-alone resource for the IC's leadership and workforce. The collection allows readers to focus on one area of interest (analytic methods, analysts, or organizations) or even one particular aspect of a category. As a collection, the volume provides a broad perspective of the issues involved in making difficult decisions, which is at the heart of intelligence analysis.