Modern spies and the war on terror / Michael E. Goodman
Material type: TextSeries: Spies around the World seriesPublication details: India Jaico Publishing House 2016Description: 87 pISBN:- 9789390166435
- 327.1273 GOO-M
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After the Cold War ended, new conflicts and enemies emerged across countries with the emergence of extremist groups. Terror attacks today involve guns, bombs, toxic chemicals and biological substances. Even in peaceful times, spies need to use both modern espionage tools and old-fashioned spying techniques to uncover or protect state secrets. Modern spies face diverse situations including discovering animals with embedded chips to monitor activity in enemy territory or go through intercepted communications such as e-mails, voice messages and telephone conversations. Although there have been several technological developments in spying tools available, they come with their own limitations like drone weapons being unable to distinguish between terrorists and peaceful civilians. Take a peek into the world of corporate espionage in organizations br>zealously protecting their trade secrets through cases such as Proctor & gamble spying on Unilever to stay ahead of the competition. Unravel international secrets from covert operations such as the search for and killing of Obama bin Laden by American special forces in this book.
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