"What's past is prologue" Shakespeare wrote. Those words have relevance today with respect to the recent and future global security environment. The 1990s were a time of transition and turmoil as familiar Cold War issues, precepts, structures, and strategies gave way to new security paradigms and problems. That transition continues, with the end nowhere in sight. In fact, I expect the next 10 t...

In the intelligence domain, the collection and processing of information and intelligence from multiple Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) sources (including sensors, human, open sources, etc.) is essential to produce actionable intelligence of high value in order to counter threat. In current practice, the outputs of different sources are more often separated from one another ...

Computer games research has focused strongly on improving the tactical intelligence of computer opponents. However, the social aspect of gaming has been largely ignored. We claim that, in many cases of multi-player gaming, the simple knowledge that one’s opponents are emotional creatures is far more important than the opponents’ skill or intelligence. We also claim that conveying this emotion i...

We discuss a user-friendly system containing an operational suite of tools that support intelligence data processing, data visualization, historical analysis, situation assessment and predictive analysis. The tools facilitate the study of events as a function of time to determine situational patterns. To support this analysis, the system has various data displays (e.g., timelines, maps charts, ...

This paper explores issues related to occupational fraud detection. We observe over the past years, a broad use of network research across social and physical sciences including but not limited to social sharing and filtering, recommendation systems, marketing and customer intelligence, counter intelligence and law enforcement. However, the rate of social network analysis adoption in organizati...

The chances of firms achieving, or being subjected to, strategic surprise have escalated with the growth of internetworking technologies and the opportunities these afford for various forms of information warfare (IW) and net terrorism. The more a business depends on sophisticated information systems, the greater its vulnerability to stealth attack. Defensive IW will soon become a necessary cos...

National security organizations in the United States, including the armed services and the intelligence community, have developed a close relationship with the scientific establishment. The latest technology often fuels warfighting and counter-intelligence capacities, providing the tactical advantages thought necessary to maintain geopolitical dominance and national security. Neuroscience has e...

The EU Intelligence Analysis Centre (INTCEN) is the most recent name for an institution that has existed in a number of forms since 1999. It monitors events both inside and outside the EU in order to provide “intelligence analyses, early warning and situational awareness” to EU institutions and Member States in the fields of security, defence and counter-terrorism. While it remains relatively s...

How can multilateral liaison be used as a tool to counter state-sponsored terrorism? This article analyses cooperation among 18 Western European intelligence agencies Libyan-Palestinian ...