IP4.10

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