چکیده:
Intelligence power is one of the important components in intelligence agencies which are dependent on different variables. This power is defined based on knowledge and control. Technology is one of the influential factors on intelligence power، which has both objective and normative effects in intelligence. Author claims that technology as an instrument has increased the knowledge production capabilities and has improved intelligence controls on national and international phenomenon.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Technology and Information Power: From Increasing Cognition to Enhancing Control Capability Date of Receipt: 2011/12/16 Date of Acceptance: 2012/03/08 1* Alireza Ghazizadeh Abstract Information power is one of the important components in intelligence organizations, in which multiple factors are involved in its enhancement.
It appears that technology has enabled intelligence organizations, by utilizing this phenomenon, to increase their cognition and monitoring of phenomena, as well as their level of information control over the national and peripheral environment.
Keywords: Technology, Information Power, Information Monitoring and Cognition, Information Control, Information Superiority _____________________________________________________________ * PhD Candidate in National Security Strategic Studies Quarterly Year 15 Number 2 Summer 2012 Serial Number 56 Introduction Information power in intelligence organizations possesses a mysterious nature that varies depending on the size and scale of the organization.
Progress in various fields of information collection, including overt collection, human intelligence collection, and technical collection, and the improvement of information control methods, is the product of advanced technologies and the application of new technological domains, which ultimately leads to increased control and supervision of intelligence organizations in their national and peripheral environments.
Intelligence collection 1 is the primary mission of every intelligence organization, the goal of which is to obtain information about the target or opponent in order to monitor and control the subject and to become aware of their capabilities, weaknesses, and strengths.