Military Intelligence for Big Data
A special issue of Big Data and Cognitive Computing (ISSN 2504-2289).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyber security; cyber diplomacy; international relations; security studies; military affairs
Interests: cyber security; computer networks; wargaming; strategic studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past decades, military professionals and intelligence agencies have evolved to adapt to new technological advancements related to the information revolution. Due to the continuously changing nature of conflicts, they have developed new capabilities and processes, transforming and adapting their structure for complex operations and supporting rapid and strategic decisions for defense and national security, considering their twin military and political dimensions. Today, in a world of proliferating threats, one of the greatest challenges is achieving new capabilities needed to explore, manage, and exploit big data as a “concept to enable mass analytics within and across the data (within the confines of the security policies) to enable information integration (e.g., entity correlation)” (Office of the Director of National Intelligence[1]). The term has also become fuzzy in the academic and military circle, encompassing the limits of the traditional understanding of data analytics across its intrinsic characteristics in volume, variety, velocity, and variability created by new information technologies and advances in sensors, computing, communications, and networks, in combination with machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In our view, to understand how big data will affect intelligence and military operations does not simply entail a quantitative increase in the amount of information but will require a qualitative change in how actors create new knowledge and shape social phenomena. Nevertheless, these capacities to collect and analyze vast amounts of raw data from a variety of security contexts have already been embraced by intelligence communities; however, the conceptual ambiguity limits the presence of a comprehensive and systemic literature on big data’s implications on defense and national security. This Special Issue offers a view on how this technology could transform military intelligence analysis and practice. It is not our intention to propose a study on technological trends in intelligence nor a dystopian future scenario. Rather, this issue will explore new methods, models, and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept and its impact on military intelligence.
[1] Quoted in I.R. Porche III et al., Data flood. Helping the Navy Address the Rising Tide of Sensor Information, Santa Monica, Rand Corporation, 2014, p. 2.
Dr. Luigi Martino
Dr. Giampiero Giacomello
Dr. Oltion Preka
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Military Intelligence
- Military Operations
- Military Transformation
- Theories of Intelligence
- Human–Machine Interactions
- Intelligence Analysis
- Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Social Big Data
- Source and Methods of Intelligence
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