From WMD to WME: An Ever-Expanding Threat Spectrum

Journal of Strategic Security

Miller Ph.D., Bowman H.¹ 

[1] National Intelligence UniversityNational Intelligence UniversityNational Intelligence University

关键词: Intelligence analysis;    Intelligence studies/education;    Threat assessment;    Weapons of mass destruction;   

DOI  :  10.5038/1944-0472.8.3S.1480

学科分类：建筑学

来源: Henley-Putnam University Press

【 摘 要 】

One of the challenges the United States and its intelligence community confronts today, if not the foremost challenge, is the girth of its national security problem set. The array of threat types, as well as the potential sources of those threats, is unprecedented and growing. The burdensome task for intelligence at all times, but especially given the present rate of change and the increasing porosity of borders, is to try to cope with an escalating mix of challenges and rising expectations of what intelligence can provide. Existing tasks persist; they are not replaced. The number and types of potentially threatening actors have exploded. Nation-states are now joined by countless ethno-religious groupings, terrorists, criminals of all stripes, drug cartels, transnational movements and issue groups, and malevolent and delinquent individuals. Threats come from all quarters and in all sizes these days, and the mission of intelligence, i.e., to track indicators to provide warning and to reduce uncertainty for decision-makers, is monumental.

【 授权许可】

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