A must-have tool for enterprise Operations Security (OPSEC) practitioners or individuals who want to understand how their every day activities generate information that can be used against them and what to do about it. 

TACTIKS are designed to answer four key questions:  1.  Who are the threats?  2.  What are their targets?  3.  What are their hostile tactics?  4.  What countermeasures will stop them? 

Content includes the following:  Operations Security, Critical Information, Open Source Information, Observation-Based Information, Web-Based Information, Imagery Intelligence, Communications Intelligence, Trash Intelligence, Social Engineering & Elicitation, Glossary of Terms, Acronyms.

This is a must-have personal security tool for all travelers.  Gain reference to over 200 individual protection measures and tips to stay safe during trips abroad. 

TACTIKS are designed to answer four key questions:  1.  Who are the threats?  2.  What are their targets?  3.  What are their hostile tactics?  4.  What countermeasures will stop them?

Content includes the following: Contingency Planning, Information Security, Situational Awareness, Air Travel Security, Ground Travel Security, Hotel Security, Randomizing Daily Routines, Surveillance, Counter-Surveillance, Attack Indicators & Countermeasures.

The intelligence failures exposed by the events of 9/11 and the missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have made one thing perfectly clear: change is needed in how the U.S. intelligence community operates. Transforming U.S. Intelligence argues that transforming intelligence requires as much a look to the future as to the past and a focus more on the art and practice of intelligence rather than on its bureaucratic arrangements. In fact, while the recent restructuring, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, may solve some problems, it has also created new ones. The authors of this volume agree that transforming policies and practices will be the most effective way to tackle future challenges facing the nation's security.

This volume's contributors, who have served in intelligence agencies, the Departments of State or Defense, and the staffs of congressional oversight committees, bring their experience as insiders to bear in thoughtful and thought-provoking essays that address what such an overhaul of the system will require. In the first section, contributors discuss twenty-first-century security challenges and how the intelligence community can successfully defend U.S. national interests. The second section focuses on new technologies and modified policies that can increase the effectiveness of intelligence gathering and analysis. Finally, contributors consider management procedures that ensure the implementation of enhanced capabilities in practice.

Transforming U.S. Intelligence supports the mandate of the new director of national intelligence by offering both careful analysis of existing strengths and weaknesses in U.S. intelligence and specific recommendations on how to fix its problems without harming its strengths. These recommendations, based on intimate knowledge of the way U.S. intelligence actually works, include suggestions for the creative mixing of technologies with new missions to bring about the transformation of U.S. intelligence without incurring unnecessary harm or expense. The goal is the creation of an intelligence community that can rapidly respond to developments in international politics, such as the emergence of nimble terrorist networks while reconciling national security requirements with the rights and liberties of American citizens.

The "war on terror" and the battle in Iraq provided the framework for George W. Bush's first term in office. As he embarked on a second term, the president reaffirmed his administration's commitment to a transformative Middle East agenda that now includes the challenges of promoting democracy, non-proliferation, and Israeli-Palestinian peace. The Saban Center at the Brookings Institution commissioned a group of its experts to critique the Bush administration's first-term performance and present alternative approaches for its second term. T he Road Ahead covers the full set of challenges confronting President Bush in his second term: from fighting Binladenism to promoting Arab reform; from achieving Middle East peace to saving Iraq; and from tackling Iran to engaging Syria and Saudi Arabia. The contributors argue that the Bush administration will need to develop an integrated Middle East strategy that improves the prospects for achieving a priority identified during the 2004 presidential campaign: strengthening alliances and utilizing them to ease the burden on American leadership. Th e Road Ahead provides the necessary elements for a genuinely integrated strategic framework that will help decisionmakers manage both the changes and the continuities in America's post-9/11 Middle East policy.

Contributors: Martin Indyk, Flynt Leverett, Kenneth Pollack, James Steinberg, Shibley Telhami, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, all connected with the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution.

A Saban Center Report

Based on hundreds of interviews with CIA officials, national security experts, and legislators, as well as a thorough culling of the archival record, America's Secret Power offers an illuminating and up-to-date picture of the CIA, stressing the difficult balance between the genuine needs of national security and the protection of individual liberties. Loch Johnson, who has studied the workings of the CIA at first hand as a legislative overseer, presents a comprehensive examination of the Agency and its relations with other American institutions, including Congress and the White House, and looks closely at how it pursues its three major missions--intelligence analysis, counterintelligence, and covert action. At once fascinating and sobering, Johnson's book reveals how the best intelligence reports can be distorted or ignored; how covert actions can spin out of control despite extensive safeguards, as in the Iran-Contra scandal; and how the CIA has spied on American citizens in clear violation of its charter. Further, he provides a thorough review of legislative efforts to curb these abuses, and suggests several important ways to achieve the delicate balance between national security and democratic ideals.

"Security Based Approach to Development" (SBA) is a new vision to development by addressing security and development issues simultaneously. It merges the global security issues with the "Rights Based" and "Needs Based" approaches. The book provides an in-depth analysis of Identity and Power. In today's context identity and security issues are two sides of the coin. SBA has recognized the issue of 'personal identification' as a pre-requisite to empowerment. Analysis attributes the deteriorating law-and-order, rigged elections, corruption, socioeconomic disparity, harboring of terrorists, lack of transparency and poor governance to lack of personal identification systems. The book stresses that unless the development investments and insecurity issues are addressed simultaneously the global development agenda will be further delayed.

Prior RAND research on AETC's management of enlisted training identified a lack of analytic tools to assess changes in the pipeline. That study recommended the development of two models. First, AETC needs a model of an actual schoolhouse system. Second, AETC needs a model of the entire training pipeline, from recruiting to on-the-job training at the operational units. The schoolhouse model grew out of the first recommendation. This document is a user's guide for the Excel-based front end used to organize and manage the detailed data for the Extend simulation model. AETC manages initial skills training across the Air Force. Broadly speaking, this consists of flying training and technical training across a wide range of career fields. Compared with flying training, technical training is a small training component in terms of dollars spent but huge in terms of the number of people trained. Flying training can cost $1 million or more per pilot, but only slightly more than 1,000 pilots per year undergo flying training. Technical training averages just $20,000 per student, but more than 30,000 students receive technical training in initial skills alone. Consequently, understanding and improving the operation of the technical training pipeline can have a significant impact on Air Force costs and on the quality of airmen undertaking their first assignments. We developed the schoolhouse model to assist in the planning and resourcing technical training. The model provides an entity-level simulation of an actual training group and its associated squadrons. The model simulates courses, plans of instruction, flights, instructors, training devices, and classroom facilities. Analysts can use the schoolhouse model to develop estimates of the resource requirements for initial skills training courses.

U.S. Army planners working on the problem of multinational force compatibility require a planning framework to guide and focus the service's long-term compatibility investments with partner armies of varying capabilities. This report defines and describes such a framework, called the Niche Capability Planning Framework. It provides a conceptual template for integrating the various considerations, ranging from U.S. Army capability gaps, to the politics of collaborating with foreign armies, to the coordination of Army and Department of Defense security cooperation activities, implicit in a strategy for cultivating compatible niche capabilities in non-core partner armies, which lack a stable, long-term, collaborative program of assistance with the U.S. Army. The report concludes with specific recommendations for implementing the Niche Capability Planning framework, which should, at a minimum, incorporate analyses of projected Army capability gaps, key partner characteristics, and the resources required to match capabilities with partners in a systematic way.

Accurate models are needed to help the USAF develop retention policies that will retain a sufficient number of officers having the right qualities. The Air Force, and researchers working on personnel issues for the Air Force and other services, have long used an annualized cost of leaving (ACOL) model to help determine how changes in compensation would affect retention. However, the ACOL model does not handle two important factors in retention decisions particularly well: future uncertainty and random "shocks." The advantage of the Dynamic Retention Model is that it allows us to model how officers might value future career flexibility in the face of uncertainty. This is important in evaluating how people will respond to contracts that obligate them to multiple years of service, such as those available under the ACP program. Advances in computer hardware and software have now made estimation of the DRM feasible on even low-end personal computers. The DRM can be used to explore different policy options by taking individual retention decisions and running them through various policy alternatives. For example, it can analyze the effect proposed changes to the ACP program, such as eliminating the until-20-YAS option or the elimination of the ACP program altogether. The DRM shows that eliminating the until-20-YAS option (while keeping the five-year contract option) results in only a small change to overall retention, while eliminating the ACP program altogether would result in the Air Force losing up to 15 percent of its most experienced officers.

This monograph addresses the following two specific questions: What should a robust acquisition investment strategy look like-one designed to perform well against all anticipated threats? How should the Army acquisition community assess the appropriateness of its investment strategy over time? The study proposes adaptation of a RAND tool called Assumption-Based Planning to help Army personnel maintain proper alignment between strategic guidance and the Army acquisition program and budget. It uses this tool to create a model that recommends acquisition investments across a broad range of capabilities. The model works toward the goal of satisfying the complex and evolving requirements specified in the national security guidance. The model applies five main steps, by identifying (1) the assumptions that underlie Army acquisition policy; (2) load-bearing assumptions, i.e., important assumptions that underpin and shape Army acquisition plans; (3) signposts or indicators that an assumption is becoming vulnerable; (4) shaping actions that can be taken to keep assumptions viable, and (5) hedging actions that can be taken to prepare for unwelcome but unpreventable developments. For the acquisitions community, shaping and hedging actions both take the form of investments.

A vital resource for security stakeholders within the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industry who need to protect trade secrets, intellectual property and sensitive company information from insider and external espionage threats.

TACTIKS are designed to answer four key questions:  1.  Who are the threats?  2.  What are their targets?  3.  What are their hostile tactics?  4.  What countermeasures will stop them?

Contents includes the following:  Defining Espionage, Industry Threats, Trade Show and Conference Threats, Insider Threats, University & College Threats, Social Networking Threats, Foreign Visitor Threats, Foreign Travel Threats, Countermeasures and Key Terms.

This is a must-have personal security tool for all travelers.  Gain reference to over 200 individual protection measures and tips to stay safe during trips abroad. 

TACTIKS are designed to answer four key questions:  1.  Who are the threats?  2.  What are their targets?  3.  What are their hostile tactics?  4.  What countermeasures will stop them?

Content includes the following: Contingency Planning, Information Security, Situational Awareness, Air Travel Security, Ground Travel Security, Hotel Security, Randomizing Daily Routines, Surveillance, Counter-Surveillance, Attack Indicators & Countermeasures.

A must-have tool for enterprise Operations Security (OPSEC) practitioners or individuals who want to understand how their every day activities generate information that can be used against them and what to do about it. 

TACTIKS are designed to answer four key questions:  1.  Who are the threats?  2.  What are their targets?  3.  What are their hostile tactics?  4.  What countermeasures will stop them? 

Content includes the following:  Operations Security, Critical Information, Open Source Information, Observation-Based Information, Web-Based Information, Imagery Intelligence, Communications Intelligence, Trash Intelligence, Social Engineering & Elicitation, Glossary of Terms, Acronyms.