Before the September 11th attacks on the United States, surveillance developed very little from the cold war school of training. Enemies, before 9/11, were clearly defined by geographical borders making surveillance adapt to a changing world much more slowly.
Al Qaeda stepped up as a new sort of enemy for the 21st century. Al Qaeda is an enemy based not on geographical location but instead on universal religious ideology.
A new mode of spying technology was needed to conduct "game changer" surveillance.
Is it even possible for the U.S. Intelligence community, or any spy agency, to adapt and achieve a solution to this new religious ideological global threat?
Is the CIA now training and recruiting agents in Arabic instead of Russian? Instead of recruiting ivy league kids fluent in German, Russian or Chinese, are they now recruiting Harvard grads of Arab, Persian or Mediterranean decent?
What about the rumor that the CIA has been replaced by a new top secret agency whose name is unknown?
I'm sure the NSA's surveillance and espionage programs are still on top. But what about Delta Force? Or Black Ops whose commando tactics seem ill-equipped to face an enemy made of dispersed cell networks.
Who is responsible for training the next generation of spies and are these new spies able to handle the threat from groups like Al Qaeda?
Know this. The CIA has been training Arab speakers for years because of the Oil trade. I think they are probably still recruiting and training Russian and Chinese speakers as well. What has changed is probably the allocation of agents who speak Arabic, Russian, German, Chinese, and so on. There is no doubt that 9/11 was a shock to the surveillance community and they have adapted accordingly.
I have no doubt that current surveillance and espionage is very different than it was prior to 1990 and the ending of the Cold War. But one must consider that this is because of technology and not just the horrible events of 9/11. For example, during the Cold War, agents were trained in how to use and plant a bug device. Rumor has it now that these bugs are obsolete and a new robot bug exists and flies around like an insect. So the training involves teaching agents how to assemble, use, and fly this spy bug. In this case, knowledge builds upon knowledge. The requirement of a device that can secretly "listen in" is still needed. The difference is the method of achieving that goal.
I would guess that the real change in surveillance and espionage is in the realization that we need to constantly evolve and adapt to changing threats. In this scenario then, the race is to see who can adapt the fastest. The first one to adapt is most likely to gain the needed surveillance.
Organizations like Al Qaeda have limited human resources. As such, their ability to adapt is very slow. It is my opinion that the USSR was a greater threat during the Cold War than Al Qaeda is now because the USSR had a greater ability to adapt counter-espionage techniques to use against us.
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 stepped up as a new sort of enemy for the 21st century. Al Qaeda is an enemy based not on geographical location but instead on universal religious ideology.
A new mode of spying technology was needed to conduct "game changer" surveillance.
Is it even possible for the U.S. Intelligence community, or any spy agency, to adapt and achieve a solution to this new religious ideological global threat?
Is the CIA now training and recruiting agents in Arabic instead of Russian? Instead of recruiting ivy league kids fluent in German, Russian or Chinese, are they now recruiting Harvard grads of Arab, Persian or Mediterranean decent?
What about the rumor that the CIA has been replaced by a new top secret agency whose name is unknown?
I'm sure the NSA's surveillance and espionage programs are still on top. But what about Delta Force? Or Black Ops whose commando tactics seem ill-equipped to face an enemy made of dispersed cell networks.
Who is responsible for training the next generation of spies and are these new spies able to handle the threat from groups like Al Qaeda?
Know this. The CIA has been training Arab speakers for years because of the Oil trade. I think they are probably still recruiting and training Russian and Chinese speakers as well. What has changed is probably the allocation of agents who speak Arabic, Russian, German, Chinese, and so on. There is no doubt that 9/11 was a shock to the surveillance community and they have adapted accordingly.
I have no doubt that current surveillance and espionage is very different than it was prior to 1990 and the ending of the Cold War. But one must consider that this is because of technology and not just the horrible events of 9/11. For example, during the Cold War, agents were trained in how to use and plant a bug device. Rumor has it now that these bugs are obsolete and a new robot bug exists and flies around like an insect. So the training involves teaching agents how to assemble, use, and fly this spy bug. In this case, knowledge builds upon knowledge. The requirement of a device that can secretly "listen in" is still needed. The difference is the method of achieving that goal.
I would guess that the real change in surveillance and espionage is in the realization that we need to constantly evolve and adapt to changing threats. In this scenario then, the race is to see who can adapt the fastest. The first one to adapt is most likely to gain the needed surveillance.
Organizations like Al Qaeda have limited human resources. As such, their ability to adapt is very slow. It is my opinion that the USSR was a greater threat during the Cold War than Al Qaeda is now because the USSR had a greater ability to adapt counter-espionage techniques to use against us.
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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Written by Michael Scott. To find out more about how to spy and even spy wireless video cameras and devices, visit surveillance
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