Intelligence Studies

From this week’s readings, it appears that while oversight mechanisms do exist in the United States, they are fragmented, insufficiently centralized, and not fully modernized to address the complexity of contemporary intelligence operations.

Ethical and legal rules governing collateral damage and civilian casualties are meant to limit the harm war inflicts on noncombatants. As Cocking (2012) explains, one of the key moral distinctions in warfare is between intending harm and merely foreseeing it.

This week’s debate confronts us with complex questions that resist simple yes-or-no answers.

Kenneth Himes (2006) raises important theoretical questions about the continued relevance and moral adequacy of Just War doctrine.

Given the history modern societies have lived through, including wars and constantly evolving threats, we are arguably past the point of needing to justify either the existence of intelligence or the need for ethics within it, although understanding the historical developments that brought us her

Perhaps the term “cybercrime” itself carries a somewhat misleading implication, as it is often immediately associated with purely digital offenses such as identity theft or ransomware attacks.

Even when set aside from its profound human rights implications, human trafficking represents a significant economic threat due to its scale and systemic impact.

State sovereignty can be understood, at its core, as the ability of a state to define and maintain authority within its boundaries.

The main driver behind cooperation between criminal and terrorist groups is practical rather than ideological.

The terms strategic communication and public diplomacy are widely used across the U.S. interagency, particularly within the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the National Security Council.