{"product_id":"9789812704825","title":"Seeing the Invisible: National Security Intelligence in an Uncertain Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eIntelligence 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Co-published With World Scientific","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065543934192,"sku":"9789812704825","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789812704825_p0.jpg?v=1763691061","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789812704825","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}