Abstract:
This article tries to provide an alternative theoretical framework for managing intelligence organizations and their role in national security by examining the challenges of the information age on intelligence organizations. Criticizing the traditional pattern of intelligence organizations based on the three pillars of "secret disclosure", "producer-customer relationship between information and policy" and "intelligence reporting", the author argues that the continuation of the traditional pattern in the information age and globalization cannot meet the expectations of statesmen for the effective role of intelligence agencies in national security. By presenting an alternative theoretical framework called the "Intelligence weapon", the author argues that the units and theorems of this theory about the role and function of intelligence organizations are appropriate to the age of globalization and through the production of intelligence power can Achieve national security. Instead of seeing Intelligence as an institution for discovering secrets, this theory introduces it as a weapon for covert warfare.
Machine summary:
Information Weapon Theory Date of Receipt: 2020/09/30 Date of Acceptance: 2020/12/16 Ali Alikhani Abstract In this article, an attempt is made to provide an alternative theoretical framework for the management of intelligence organizations and their role in national security by examining the challenges arising from the information age on intelligence organizations.
By criticizing the traditional model of intelligence organization functions, which is based on three pillars: "secret discovery," "the producer-consumer relationship between intelligence and politics," and "intelligence reporting," the author argues that the continuation of the traditional model in the era of information and globalization cannot meet the expectations of statesmen for the effective role of intelligence organizations in national security.
By presenting an alternative theoretical framework titled "Information Weapon," the author contends that the units and issues of this theory regarding the role and function of intelligence organizations are consistent with the era of globalization and can fulfill the intelligence mission for ensuring national security through the production of intelligence power.
Despite efforts to enable both the intelligence agency and the policymaker to play a role in determining needs, the problem of the appropriate relationship between information and politics remained as strong as ever, and this situation led to the proposal of a third solution, namely reversing the one-sided relationship; such that the intelligence organization produces intelligence products based on its own diagnosis of the country's national security situation and makes them available for consumption by customers.
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