IP 4.1

  

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 6 pages:

Describe your selected entity—is it a cell, a terrorist network, a nation-state sponsoring terrorists, a conventional nation that opposes the U.S., or some other form?

Your selection and description may be hypothetical, based on real-world organizations or governments, or a combination of both. You are not limited to terrorist organizations or networks.

What are at least 5 main technological types and/or tools used by your selected entity with regard to information sharing and intelligence gathering? Explain.
Describe the adversary’s version of the following:

Communications networks
Fusion centers
Information sharing environment (ISE)
Detection tools
Surveillance capabilities

Assuming your adversary is unconcerned with ethics, describe at least 3 of the unethical or immoral ways this enemy uses technology to attempt to attack or defeat the United States or its allies.
What are 3 unethical ways this entity or its sponsor employs the technologies against their nation’s own population? Explain in detail.

For all of these unethical acts, include details about the motives behind precise uses.

Lastly, having considered in detail the ethical violations involved in studying your enemy’s leveraging of technology, contemplate and discuss under what circumstances or justifiable cases the U.S. might employ similar methods;

Remember to defend your answers with evidence or critically derived arguments.

Note: You do not need to necessarily agree with the identified or invented unethical practices; describe them as potential motives, uses, or justifications as objectively as you can, avoiding inserting your opinion or emotion into your answer.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.