Intelligence, Terrorism, and National Security

摘要

This chapter deals with the nature of extreme terrorism and the threat it poses to national security. It analyzes the challenges faced by intelligence and counterintelligence services in the U.S., focusing in particular on the comparative strengths and weaknesses associated with the dominant organizational forms favored by, on one hand, radical terrorist groups (network) and, on the other, national intelligence agencies (bureaucracy). "Intelligence, Terrorism and National Security" is not the first ARIST chapter to treat the subject of national intelligence. That honor goes to Philip Davies's "Intelligence, Information Technology, and Information Warfare," which appeared in volume 36; an earlier chapter by Cronin and Davenport (1993) on social intelligence addressed only tangentially classical notions of governmental intelligence and statecraft. P. H. J. Davies (2002, p. 313) rightly noted in his introduction that "it is indeed difficult to find any topic in information science and technology not relevant to intelligence, information warfare, and national security, or conversely." Recent events have merely underscored the validity of his claim, a claim that is buttressed in the present volume by Lee Strickland in his compendious chapter on domestic security surveillance and civil liberties.