Publisher's Synopsis
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 85%, Brunel University, course: Intelligence and Security Studies, language: English, abstract: The need for clarity on Counterintelligence (CI) has been widely felt by many authors in the intelligence community. Although different authors have attempted to define CI for a correct perception of the subject, a complete and agreed definition has still been a complex task to achieve. Definitions of CI have varied in terms of the CI functions, the CI targets, authors' professional experience and CI's legal and regulatory requirements. Analyses have also shown presence of myopic vision in these definitions, which could not anticipate contemporary threat such as cyber espionage. CI as a concept has evolved over periods of changing nature of warfare and intelligence operations. Historical instances have continually reshaped CI in its entirety. None of such changes were anticipated to be able to define CI more strategically. Organizations have relied on the evolutionary nature of CI in response to lessons learned from CI successes and failures, legal requirements, technological developments and, changing nature of threats, thus deservingly leaving the definition of CI to be varied.
