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Networks Of Threats: Interconnection, Interaction, Intermediation, Julien Theron Oct 2021

Networks Of Threats: Interconnection, Interaction, Intermediation, Julien Theron

Journal of Strategic Security

The rapidly changing global security environment requires to constantly adapt our understanding of threats. The findings of this paper confirm that threats interact with each other on three levels. Security, conflict, war, and strategic studies converge to build a new qualitative theoretical framework for threat analysis. Shaping the global security environment, threats communicate on three levels. Firstly, the interconnection of agents with similar ideological and/or strategic motivations connects threats. Secondly, interaction exacerbates incidental threats through cooperation, competition, and convergence. Thirdly, intermediation occurs between antagonistic threats trying to achieve common intermediary objectives. These networks are driven by agents maximizing their impact …


Intelligence Sesquicentennial: Testament Of Bleeding War, David M. Keithly Oct 2015

Intelligence Sesquicentennial: Testament Of Bleeding War, David M. Keithly

Journal of Strategic Security

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