{"product_id":"seeing-the-invisible-thomas-a-quiggin-9789812704825","title":"Seeing the Invisible: National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain Age","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas A. Quiggin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9812704825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789812704825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Co-Published with World Scientific\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.36w x 0.59d","brand":"Thomas A. Quiggin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46199148216575,"sku":"9789812704825","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d691681d-4f77-43af-be5e-c34900351ba0.jpg?v=1727925184","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/seeing-the-invisible-thomas-a-quiggin-9789812704825","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}