By John C. Baker, Beth E. Lachman, Dave R. Frelinger, Kevin M. O'Connell, Alexander Hou
Assesses the fatherland safety implications of publicly to be had geospatial info and knowledge.
Read or Download Mapping the risks: assessing homeland security implications of publicly available geospatial information PDF
Similar intelligence & espionage books
Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack
White condo speechwriter Marc Thiessen was once locked in a safe room and given entry to the main delicate intelligence while he was once tasked to write down President George W. Bush’s 2006 speech explaining the CIA’s interrogation application and why Congress should still authorize it. Few comprehend extra approximately those CIA operations than Thiessen, and in his new ebook, dating catastrophe, he records simply how powerful the CIA’s interrogations have been in foiling assaults on the US, penetrating al-Qaeda’s excessive command, and delivering our army with actionable intelligence.
The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
On a moonless evening simply weeks after September eleven, 2001, U. S. specific Forces group ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a probably very unlikely challenge: to foment a tribal insurrection and strength the Taliban to give up. Armed completely with the gear they could keep it up their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla battle, Captain Jason Amerine and his males don't have any selection yet to belief their in simple terms best friend, a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who has back from exile and is being hunted through the Taliban as he travels the geographical region elevating a military.
Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR's White House Triggered Pearl Harbor
Lately declassified proof and never-before-translated files inform the true tale of the day that FDR memorably declared could stay in infamy, exploring how Joseph Stalin and the KGB used an unlimited community of double brokers and communist sympathizers—most significantly Harry Dexter White—to lead Japan into conflict opposed to the us, providing Soviet involvement in the back of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis
This e-book tracks publish 11th of September advancements in nationwide safeguard and policing intelligence and their relevance to new rising parts of intelligence perform resembling: corrections, biosecurity, inner most and regulatory environments. advancements are explored thematically throughout 3 huge sections: utilising intelligence knowing constructions constructing a self-discipline.
Extra info for Mapping the risks: assessing homeland security implications of publicly available geospatial information
Example text
S. homeland. Sound information protection policies for geospatial data and information can be an integral element of a broader, multitiered protection strategy for safeguarding the national critical infrastructure and other key assets from physical attacks. S. critical infrastructure and key assets are owned and operated by the private sector, making private industry an important partner in developing effective information protection policies and practices (The White House, 2003, p. 8). S. homeland facilities to physical attacks.
In addition, efforts to improve the efficiency of citizen dealings with federal agencies are likely to involve a high degree of public access to federal government information. S. S. S. regions, making various geospatial information available to governmental, nonprofit, and private-sector participants worldwide who wish to make their spatial information accessible on the Internet. Other federal distribution mechanisms exist for making information publicly available. S. federal government agencies and offices.
22 Mapping the Risks objectives. Certain from the standpoint of the defense is that there is a hefty list of possible motivations. Also, there are likely to be quite different thresholds for success or failure among the actors. , mass casualties) might be required. Indeed, the latter may be especially true for primarily political and psychological objectives in which the battle is largely one of perceptions. The Attacker’s Tool Box: Types of Weapons Considered Attackers possess a wide range of possible modes of attack, all of which relate to the information available to the attacker.