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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"intelligence community"”.
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Politics as Usual: Congress and the Intelligence Community
<p>Intelligence is an integral part of states’ foreign policy formation and implementation. In the American context, the intelligence community is involved in essentially every national security discussion occurring in government, yet it remains relatively obscure to academia and the broader …
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The EU Intelligence Community: Elements of a EU intelligence Culture
… must be implemented and backed by valid intelligence support. The EU intelligence community, that according to this paper is composed by mainly four agencies (EU IntCen, EU IntDiv, SatCen and Europol), represents the backbone for the information and policy making support of the EU …
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A Descriptive Study of the Intelligence Community in the United States of America
… treatise represents a descriptive study of the intelligence community in the United States. It explores the ramifications of terrorism on the intelligence function, post September 11, 2001. In-depth discussions concerning the structure of the U.S. intelligence community are presented as well as …
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Motivation to Participate in Workplace Training Within the Intelligence Community and Beyond: A Study of Contributing Factors
… in academia, the workplace, and the community. No studies were found that investigated the motivation of adults who participate and do not participate in the Intelligence Community (IC). This study empirically examined the factors that influence adult participation in IC workplace …
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Organizational change for the intelligence community supporting maritime homeland security and defense : developing a domestic maritime intelligence network
… effectively support these missions, an effective intelligence apparatus must exist which is adapted to the Information Age. Terrorist groups are using the network forms of organization, with significant advantages over traditional hierarchies within the U.S. government. Effectively organizing the …
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Measuring Effectiveness in the Domestic Intelligence Community: Taking a Configurational Approach to Explain Organizational Outcomes in the National Network of Fusion Centers
… and local organizations that fuse threat-related intelligence and information by working with federal, state, and local law enforcement as well as other security partners in the public and private sectors. This research will ask why outcomes at the fusion center level vary within the network by …
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Strategies and responses to intelligence failure : an organizational view
… following September 11th, the United States Intelligence Community has sought to understand the causes of intelligence failure that allowed such an attack to be carried out. The proposed causes of intelligence failure are myriad - from breakdowns in analytic independence, to a failure to …
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Intelligence and decision making : the Bay of Pigs operation and the Cuban missile crisis.
… in 1961 and 1962 are examined as case studies of intelligence and decision making. At the end of his administration, President Eisenhower decided to sponsor Cuban exiles who would invade the island and establish a new government. Responsibility for directing the project was given to the Central …
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A systems analysis of tactical intelligence in the US Army
… outcomes through dynamics associated with intelligence and operational processes. System dynamics methodology can provide a foundation for exploration of these processes within the intelligence cycle. In the Army's current structure, intelligence capacity falls short of what combat …
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War With Chinese Characteristics: Chinese Intelligence Operations Against the American Target
… of China possesses the single most hostile intelligence service operating against the United States today. It uses a large civilian and military intelligence apparatus to operate against American targets in areas that are critical to China's national security and strategic modernization. …
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The Defense Intelligence Agency: An in-depth study of the development of the intelligence agency
This thesis will examine the history of intelligence leading to the creation of DIA, DIA's changing and emerging roles, its missions and organization, agency contribution during military operations, criticisms of the agency, and lastly the intelligence outlook for the future of DIA. Since its …
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Failure to adapt; Intelligence Failure and Military Failure as Functions of Strategic Failure?
The following paper looks at intelligence failures and military failures through the lens of adaptation failure. This paper asserts that there is reason to believe that certain causal elements of alleged intelligence failures reside more so in the province of politics, than in the collection and …
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Evolution: advancing Communities of Practice in naval intelligence
… (KM). One of the key components of KM is the Community of Practice. Communities of Practice are groups that form to share what they know, and to learn from one another regarding some aspect of their work. Organizations are strengthened through an improved network of contacts and enhanced …
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Countering Islamic radicalization and Al Shabaab recruitment within the ethnic Somali population of the United States: an argument for applying best practices for stemming youth gang recruitment and initiation
… making it difficult for law enforcement and the intelligence community to focus their efforts to predict or determine where violent extremists will emerge. This thesis focuses on the Somali-American community in particular and the threat posed by a very small percentage of that community that …
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Geographic profiling: knowledge through prediction
For years it has been the goal of the Intelligence Community to limit sharply or even put a stop to terrorism, be it through the prevention of attacks or apprehension of those seeking to commit such acts. While there has been some success, perhaps further progress could be made by incorporating …
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JAV žvalgybos politizacijos apraiškos prezidento D. Trumpo kadencijos metu /
… have been rising between him and the U.S. intelligence community (IC). There have been instances of friction among previous administrations and the IC, with Nixon and Carter harshly criticizing U.S. intelligence, however, IC’s reaction to Trump’s words and deeds has been unprecedented in …
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Securing nuclear and radiological material in the homeland
It is well established among the intelligence community that terrorists view the acquisition of nuclear or radiological materials (NRAM) as a goal in furtherance of their efforts to attack the U.S. within its borders. The use of NRAM in a nuclear weapon of mass destruction (WMD) or a radiological …
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WORKING AGAINST CORRUPTION: HOW TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE SECURITY POSTURE AT PORTS-OF-ENTRY AND SECURE AMERICA’S SOUTHERN BORDER
… would benefit from resources available to the intelligence community (IC) to combat these threats. Injecting these resources directly to the operators engaged with the threat allows for more effective disruption to criminal organizations. The traditional methods of screening travelers through a …
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Intelligence architecture in the Hungarian Special Operations Forces
… dominance. Information gathered by human intelligence becomes even more important in asymmetric warfare. The role of the SOF in the collection of important information in theater requires a robust intelligence architecture at the unit level. The final goal should be the complete …
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Improving the all-hazards homeland security enterprise through the use of an emergency management intelligence model
… to its fullest extent is the utilization of an intelligence process to enhance EM operations. Despite the existence of multiple Federal-level policies that outline the importance of intelligence and information sharing across the all-hazards community, EM is still by-and-large an outsider to the …
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