Author: Don Pendleton
Publisher: Gold Eagle
ISBN: 1426885113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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Operating under covert presidential directive, the clandestine antiterrorist organization Stony Man doesn't officially exist. Unofficially, they fight the fires bureaucracy can't or won't touch. Off the grid, under the radar and 100 percent deniable, the commando and cyber specialists of Stony Man are the ultimate problem solvers—and the best defense the nation has…. Stony Man launch teams are rolling hot as convergent threats erupt across the globe. From South America to Somalia, Toronto and Kiev, the action is raging. Colombian narco-terrorists, Chinese Tongs, African warlords, a Russian kingpin, a cutthroat Saudi prince and a corrupt American lawyer are linked as agents of a shadow group called Seven. The ties and power of this nebulous organization go deep and dark—with the strength to leverage the ultimate power play against Stony Man itself.
Author: Mandy M. Roth
Publisher: Raven Happy Hour
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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From NY Times & USA TODAY bestselling author Mandy M. Roth Paranormal Shifter Military Special Ops Romance When loyalties are questioned and bonds forged, the Immortal Ops find themselves fighting a war to guard not only their secrets, but their lives as well. Missy Carter leads a rather boring, overworked life as a system analyst for the State Department or rather, that’s what she lets everyone believe. In reality her life is anything but boring. As a Shadow Agent with the Paranormal Security and Intelligence, she’s seen and done it all. Intelligence is her specialty, assassination is her hobby. The only problem is that the things she spies on don’t die easily. In fact, some of them were dead to begin with. She’s learned to handle anything life can throw at her. That is until the biggest paramilitary pain her backside shows up again. Lucky for him, he’s good looking. Roi Majors, wolf-shifter and second in command of the I-Ops, is having a hard time believing that Intel can only get half the information needed to bring down an underground ring of vampires with big-spending backers who are hell-bent on creating a race of supernaturals with multiple strands of DNA in them. When he finds himself paired with the one woman in the world who seems immune to his self-proclaimed charms, he can’t wait to see her to safety and then bid her good riddance. He never counted on falling in love with her. And he sure in the hell never counted on her claiming to be an agent with a branch of the government no human should know about. ★★★★★ 5 Stars--“If you love a good Romantic Suspense of the Paranormal kind full of sexiness, action, and… likable characters then you need this story and these series in your life.” ★★★★★ 5 Stars--“Mandy has created a great world and a large family of characters that blend well together in this special series of books” ★★★★★ 5 Stars—“There were times when I felt transported into a Marvel movie, complete with the kickass, take no prisoners super heroine Melissa Carter.” IMMORTAL OPS WORLD SUGGESTED READING ORDER Books in order of release and in their suggested reading order to date: Immortal Ops (Immortal Ops® book 1) Critical Intelligence (Immortal Ops® book 2) Radar Deception (Immortal Ops® book 3) Strategic Vulnerability (Immortal Ops® book 4) Tactical Magik (Immortal Ops® book 5) Act of Mercy (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 1) Administrative Control (Immortal Ops book 6) Act of Surrender (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 2) Broken Communication (Immortal Outcasts® book 1) Separation Zone (Immortal Ops® book 7) Act of Submission (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 3) Damage Report (Immortal Outcasts® book 2) Act of Command (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 4) Wolf’s Surrender (Paranormal Security and Intelligence Ops Shadow Agents® book 1) The Dragon Shifter’s Duty (Paranormal Security and Intelligence Ops Shadow Agents® book 2) Midnight Echoes (Immortal Ops: Crimson Ops book 1) Isolated Maneuver (Immortal Outcasts book 3) Expecting Darkness (Immortal Ops: Crimson Ops book 2) Area of Influence (Immortal Ops® book 8) Act of Passion (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 5) Act of Brotherhood (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 6) Healing the Wolf (Paranormal Security and Intelligence Ops Shadow Agents® book 3) Wrecked Intel (Immortal Outcasts® book 4) Bound to Midnight (Immortal Ops: Crimson Ops book 3) Out of the Dark (Paranormal Security and Intelligence Ops Shadow Agents® book 4) Act of Surveillance (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 7) Act of Freedom (Paranormal and Security Intelligence® PSI-Ops® book 8) Bat Out of Hell (Immortal Ops: Crimson Ops book 4) and more to come! Book two in the bestselling series The Immortal Ops by NY Times and USAT bestselling author Mandy M. Roth. Perfect for fans of K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, Laurann Dohner, Denise Grover Swank, Carrie Ann Ryan, Darynda Jones, Jennifer L Armentrout, Alisa Woods, Elizabeth Hunter, Christine Feehan, Rebecca Zanetti, Nalini Singh, Felicity Heaton, Donna Grant, JR Ward, Kresley Cole, Laurann Dohner, Gena Showalter, Alexandra Ivy, Genevieve Jack, Lora Leigh, Patricia Briggs, and Laurell K. Hamilton. 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Author: Katherine Hibbs Pherson
Publisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1544374275
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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With Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence, Katherine Hibbs Pherson and Randolph H. Pherson have updated their highly regarded, easy-to-use handbook for developing core critical thinking skills and analytic techniques. This indispensable text is framed around 20 key questions that all analysts must ask themselves as they prepare to conduct research, generate hypotheses, evaluate sources of information, draft papers, and ultimately present analysis, including: How do I get started? Where is the information I need? What is my argument? How do I convey my message effectively? The Third Edition includes suggested best practices for dealing with digital disinformation, politicization, and AI. Drawing upon their years of teaching and analytic experience, Pherson and Pherson provide a useful introduction to skills that are essential within the intelligence community.
Author: David T. Moore
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437934927
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Contents: (1) How Do People Reason?; (2) What is Critical Thinking?; (3) What Can Be Learned from the Past?: Thinking Critically about Cuba: Deploying the Missiles; Assessing the Implications; Between Dogmatism and Refutation; Lacking: Disconfirmation; The Roles of Critical Thinking in the Cuban Crisis; Winners and Losers: The Crisis in Context; Ten Years Later, They Meet Again; Judgment; (4) How Can Intelligence Analysts Employ Critical Thinking?; (5) How Can Intelligence Analysts be Taught to Think Critically?; (6) How Does Critical Thinking Transform?; (7) What Other Points of View Exist?; (8) What Does the Future Hold?; (9) NSA¿s Critical Thinking and Structured Analysis Class Syllabus. Charts and tables.
Author: David Cariens
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9781105103568
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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"Critical Thinking through Writing" is an essential book for all intelligence officers, analysts, and managers who want their intelligence to be read and understood. Drawing on his extensive CIA and teaching experience, David Cariens offers salient lessons in writing, critical thinking, and ethics. The English language is complex and this book offers practical instruction designed specifically for intelligence personnel. The writing and analysis exercises are invaluable and will improve the skills of any analyst, regardless of their prior experience. With the knowledge from this book, intelligence personnel will ensure their message is clear and concise. --Aaron Clack, Division Criminal Analysis Section Manager, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Author: Simon Biggs
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136804730
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound ambivalence both in public and in the private sphere. In a new approach, Biggs and Lowenstein offer a critical examination of Generational Intelligence as one way of addressing these issues. How easy is it to put yourself in the shoes of someone of a different age group? What are the personal, interpersonal and social factors that affect our perceptions of the ‘age other’? What are the key issues facing families, workplaces and communities in an ageing society? This book sets out a way of thinking about interpersonal relations based on age, and the question of communication between people of different ages and generations. The book challenges existing orthodoxies for relations between adults of different ages and draws out steps that can be taken to increase understanding between generational groups. The authors outline a series of steps that can be taken to enhance Generational Intelligence, examine existing theories and social issues, and suggest new directions for sustainable relations between generational groups.
Author: John Michael Weaver
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781536177947
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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"The United States as the world's sole superpower is seeing its position wane as China and Russia look to reassert themselves as global powers. Moreover, there are many other security issues confronting the United States. This book provides an open source intelligence analysis of regions, countries and non-state actors from around the globe that could adversely impact the United States. Chapters in this book dissect issues using predominately qualitative analysis techniques focusing on secondary data sources in order to provide an unclassified assessment of threats as seen by the United States using two models (the York Intelligence Red Team Model and the Federal Secondary Data Case Study Triangulation Model). The key audience for this book includes the 17 members of the U.S. intelligence community, members of the U.S. National Security Council, allies of the United States, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) looking to provide support abroad, and private sector companies considering expanding their operations overseas"--
Author: John Soldatos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781680836868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Modern critical infrastructures comprise of many interconnected cyber and physical assets, and as such are large scale cyber-physical systems. Hence, the conventional approach of securing these infrastructures by addressing cyber security and physical security separately is no longer effective. Rather more integrated approaches that address the security of cyber and physical assets at the same time are required. This book presents integrated (i.e. cyber and physical) security approaches and technologies for the critical infrastructures that underpin our societies. Specifically, it introduces advanced techniques for threat detection, risk assessment and security information sharing, based on leading edge technologies like machine learning, security knowledge modelling, IoT security and distributed ledger infrastructures. Likewise, it presets how established security technologies like Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), pen-testing, vulnerability assessment and security data analytics can be used in the context of integrated Critical Infrastructure Protection. The novel methods and techniques of the book are exemplified in case studies involving critical infrastructures in four industrial sectors, namely finance, healthcare, energy and communications. The peculiarities of critical infrastructure protection in each one of these sectors is discussed and addressed based on sector-specific solutions. The advent of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is expected to increase the cyber-physical nature of critical infrastructures as well as their interconnection in the scope of sectorial and cross-sector value chains. Therefore, the demand for solutions that foster the interplay between cyber and physical security, and enable Cyber-Physical Threat Intelligence is likely to explode. In this book, we have shed light on the structure of such integrated security systems, as well as on the technologies that will underpin their operation. We hope that Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection stakeholders will find the book useful when planning their future security strategies.
Author: Willem Bart de Lint
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811603529
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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This book explores the conundrum that political fortune is dependent both on social order and big, constitutive crime. An act of outrageous harm depends on rules and protocols of crime scene discovery and forensic recovery, but political authorities review events for a social agenda, so that crime is designated according to the relative absence or presence of politics. In investigating this problem, the book introduces the concepts ‘intelligence crime’ and ‘critical forensics.’ It also reviews as an exemplar of this phenomenon ‘apex crime,’ a watershed event involving government in the support of a contested political and social order and its primary opponent as the obvious offender, which is then subject to a confirmation bias. Chapters feature case study analysis of a selection of familiar, high profile crimes in which the motives and actions of security or intelligence actors are considered as blurred or smeared depending on their interconnection in transactional political events, or according to friend/enemy status.
Author: Javier Argomaniz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317378946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Treaty on the European Union stipulates that one of the key objectives of the Union is to provide citizens with a high level of safety within an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Given that the fight against terrorism is a prominent aspect of this general objective, it is remarkable that, in spite of its political relevance and decade-long history, it has only relatively recently received due attention in the academic community. Yet an analysis of the successes and failures of the EU's involvement in this field is imperative and this is a particularly pertinent moment to take stock of progress. The goal of this book is therefore to look back at the post-9/11 period and answer the question of whether, when it comes to the measures taken to combat terrorism following these attacks, the EU has lived up to the promise made in its founding treaties. In pursuing this goal, this volume presents the views of leading experts casting a critical eye over the EU's performance, recognising achievements but also being suitably critical when the realities did not match the European rhetoric. In doing this, the book makes a significant contribution not only to the scholarly investigation of European Union policies, but also to the study of counter-terrorism in general. This book was published as a special issue of Intelligence and National Security.
