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Surveillance changed very slowly prior to the September 11th attacks on the U.S. Enemy combatants were easily defined by geographical location making surveillance a kind of hack that target science.
Al Qaeda was a new kind of enemy. It is an enemy based on religious ideology and as such, can survive and reproduce across geographical borders.
To conduct surveillance, a new kind of technology had to be developed.
Has the U.S. Intelligence community adapted to the Al Qaeda threat since the 9/11 attacks?
Does the CIA now recruit agents in Arabic instead of Russian? Does the CIA recruit people who are of Mediterranean or Arab decent instead of German, Chinese, or Russian?
What about the rumor that the CIA has been replaced by a new top secret agency whose name is unknown?
Even if we reason that the NSA's surveillance program is still going, is it really effective at gathering surveillance on an enemy that is made up of dispersed cell networks?
Who is training the new generation of western spies and how are they doing it?
With the Oil trade, we know that the CIA has been recruiting Arabic speakers for many years now. There may be a greater demand for them now, but they've always been recruiting people of Arab decent. I think 9/11 probably changed the allocation of Russian, Chinese, German, and Arabic language agents.
Current espionage and surveillance is different from what it was during the cold war (which ended around 1990). Keep in mind that in adaptation, knowledge builds upon knowledge and is seldom completely discarded. For example, in the cold war, agents were trained on various bug planting devices and how to plant them. Today, the CIA has a bug that looks like a real bug, that flies like a real bug and the training involves how to fly this bug into position. So the basic process of needing to secretly "listen in" is the same, but the technology available to achieve this surveillance continues to change and improve in all sorts of ways.
Probably the biggest change in espionage is the realization that one needs to "continually evolve" both in operational terms as well as technological. It is a race between countries to adapt faster than your opponent because he who adapts the quickest is most likely to achieve the desire results.
Also keep in mind that terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda have very limited resources in terms of technology, financial funding, and human resources. This means that they are far less effective at executing counter-espionage techniques than say the USSR is.
Delta Force and Black Ops are not really surveillance gathering Intelligence agencies but are instead classified as operational branches of the military. These special branches of the military have adaptive technology that allows weapons that such oxygen from caves or guide bombs to a needle point. Commando style tactics are effective against terrorist infrastructure. These operational branches can only be effective if the primary intelligence given to this is accurate. This is where I see the big challenge today, effective surveillance technology and espionage.
Al Qaeda was a new kind of enemy. It is an enemy based on religious ideology and as such, can survive and reproduce across geographical borders.
To conduct surveillance, a new kind of technology had to be developed.
Has the U.S. Intelligence community adapted to the Al Qaeda threat since the 9/11 attacks?
Does the CIA now recruit agents in Arabic instead of Russian? Does the CIA recruit people who are of Mediterranean or Arab decent instead of German, Chinese, or Russian?
What about the rumor that the CIA has been replaced by a new top secret agency whose name is unknown?
Even if we reason that the NSA's surveillance program is still going, is it really effective at gathering surveillance on an enemy that is made up of dispersed cell networks?
Who is training the new generation of western spies and how are they doing it?
With the Oil trade, we know that the CIA has been recruiting Arabic speakers for many years now. There may be a greater demand for them now, but they've always been recruiting people of Arab decent. I think 9/11 probably changed the allocation of Russian, Chinese, German, and Arabic language agents.
Current espionage and surveillance is different from what it was during the cold war (which ended around 1990). Keep in mind that in adaptation, knowledge builds upon knowledge and is seldom completely discarded. For example, in the cold war, agents were trained on various bug planting devices and how to plant them. Today, the CIA has a bug that looks like a real bug, that flies like a real bug and the training involves how to fly this bug into position. So the basic process of needing to secretly "listen in" is the same, but the technology available to achieve this surveillance continues to change and improve in all sorts of ways.
Probably the biggest change in espionage is the realization that one needs to "continually evolve" both in operational terms as well as technological. It is a race between countries to adapt faster than your opponent because he who adapts the quickest is most likely to achieve the desire results.
Also keep in mind that terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda have very limited resources in terms of technology, financial funding, and human resources. This means that they are far less effective at executing counter-espionage techniques than say the USSR is.
Delta Force and Black Ops are not really surveillance gathering Intelligence agencies but are instead classified as operational branches of the military. These special branches of the military have adaptive technology that allows weapons that such oxygen from caves or guide bombs to a needle point. Commando style tactics are effective against terrorist infrastructure. These operational branches can only be effective if the primary intelligence given to this is accurate. This is where I see the big challenge today, effective surveillance technology and espionage.
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By Michael Scott. To learn more about spying and even how to find people from your past, go to surveillance
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