Applying Network Theory to Develop a Dedicated National Intelligence Network

Abstract

Terrorist networks have evolved from locally-oriented political organizations into complex, adaptive, loosely structured groups that span international borders to promote larger regional and global goals through violent asymmetric attacks dependant on compartmentalization and deception. This adaptive terrorist organizational structure and the lack of U.S. IC and LE intelligence sharing were to blame for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Because terrorist groups are moving toward a less predictable, but more diverse, dynamic, and fluid structure, effective combativeness of terrorism will require fighting terrorist networks with a network capable of collecting and sharing credible, reliable and corroborative information on an unprecedented scale, transcending geographic, agency, and political boundaries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA457170

Entities

People

  • James A. Tindall

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Employment
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Community (United States)
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Interagency Coordination
  • National Security
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Surveillance
  • Terrorists
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.