Security Analysis: A Critical Thinking Approach

Security Analysis: A Critical-Thinking Approach is for anyone desiring to learn techniques for generating the best answers to complex questions and best solutions to complex problems. It furnishes current and future analysts in national security, homeland security, law enforcement, and corporate security an alternative, comprehensive process for conducting both intelligence analysis and policy analysis. The target audience is upper-division undergraduate students and new graduate students, along with entry-level practitioner trainees. The book centers on a Security Analysis Critical-Thinking Framework that synthesizes critical-thinking and existing analytic techniques. Ample examples are provided to assist readers in comprehending the material. Newly created material includes techniques for analyzing beliefs and political cultures. The book also functions as an introduction to Foreign Policy and Security Studies.https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/1005/thumbnail.jp

Emotional Intelligence and Leader Development: Measuring Trait Emotional Intelligence Scores of Mid- Career Commissioned U.S. Army Officers

The United States Army is preparing for the ambiguous and consistently changing realities of the modern world by developing leaders who are adaptive, mentally agile, and open to change. However, without instruments or tools that purposefully measure adaptability within each individual leader, it is challenging to determine the U.S. Army’s effectiveness at the strategic goal to develop adaptive and self-aware leaders. The dependent variables of interest are the trait emotional intelligence scores of commissioned U.S. Army leaders who have at least 10 years of military experience. This quantitative survey based study samples (N = 28) mid-career U.S. Army Majors using a credible self-report trait emotional intelligence instrument called the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form (TEIQ-SF). The TEIQ-SF measures 15 facets that nest within the Army Leadership Requirements Model (ALRM). Scores on the four primary factors measured by the TEIQ-SF (Emotionality, Self-control, Sociability, and Well-being); and scores on the independent facet of Adaptability provide insight into the U.S. Army’s effectiveness at developing adaptive leaders for a complex world. The independent variables of focus are gender, military specialty, and the Big Five personality traits measured by the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI). The results of this study suggest there are no significant differences in trait emotional intelligence (EI) between females and males within the sample of U.S. Army Majors. The results also suggest trait EI does not differ based on military specialty. The independent trait EI facet Adaptability was significantly correlated with the personality trait Conscientiousness, r = 0.39, n = 28, p \u3c .05. The coefficient of determination indicated that 15% of the variance in Conscientiousness is explained by Adaptability. Adaptability was also significantly correlated with the personality trait Emotional Stability, r = 0.55, n = 28, p \u3c .01. The coefficient of determination indicated that 30% of the variance in Emotional Stability is explained by Adaptability. Additionally, the trait EI factor of Self-Control was significantly correlated with the personality trait Emotional Stability, r = 0.69, n = 28, p \u3c .01. The coefficient of determination indicated that 48% of the variance in Emotional Stability is explained by Self Control

The role of scientific thinking in environmental policy decisions

The purpose of this study was to analyze the individual reasoning of 24 adults as they made decisions for two communities regarding municipal wastewater treatment. The two western Oregon communities were both responding to notices from governmental agencies of higher environmental standards for the purification of wastewater before it could be returned to local streams. Both cities considered the possibility of integrating this relatively unproven method into their existing conventional treatment systems. There were differing opinions within both groups about the use of "green treatment" technology. For the group decisions City B rejected the idea and City A opted to try a small pilot project. The focus of this study was not on the outcome of the group decisions, but on the individual reasoning of each subject. Each of these people was asked to rate 20 statements about constructed wetlands using a 4 point scale to measure his/her initial core beliefs (ICB) in the context of this study. The range of possible scores was from -40 to +40, but the scores of the 24 subjects in this study ranged from +2 to +39. It was assumed that a person with a low ICB score had a lower interest in using constructed wetlands for water purification than a person with a higher ICB score. Each subject was asked to verbally describe his/her reasoning in regard to his/her respective group decision in a face to face interview. The interviews were designed to allow each subject to respond to questions about his/her personal content knowledge, decision commitment and alternative epistemology regarding the "green treatment" concept of water purification. The rhetorical arguments of each subject were audio-taped and transcribed. The data were qualitatively analyzed for critical thinking operations (CTO) and fallacious thinking patterns (FTP). A regression analysis showed a correlation coefficient for these features of -0.70. Nine of the subjects exhibited zero FTP in their reasoning. Those nine subjects scored within the interquartile range of the group distribution of ICB scores. Of the 15 subjects with FTPs identified in their reasoning, only two had ICB scores within the interquartiles, and the remaining 13 had ICB scores in either the upper or lower quartiles of the group distribution. This pattern suggests that a person with strong bias for or against the constructed wetland concept is more apt to make errors in reasoning than is a person with a moderate view of the issue

What Do We Know About the World? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives

his book consists of selected papers delivered at “First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Škarić” in May, 2012, and subsequently revised for publication. Through a variety of different routes, the papers explore the role of rhetoric and argumentation in various types of public discourse and present interdisciplinary work connecting linguists, phoneticians, philosophers, law experts and communication scientists in the common ground of rhetoric and argumentation

Identifying national security fundamentals in the big data of digital asymmetrical environment communication

This conceptualization article discusses the impact of technology to society from variousperspectives which relates on humanities aspect of social convention, hegemony, generation warfare and intelligence constructs.The narratives provide understandings of the current transition, emphasizing the changing need of intelligence protocols to understand the society in current technological advancement era. Intelligence output is detrimental as information is no longer secluded in this borderless communication spheres. The article narrates generation warfare intelligence in complex information system of digital asymmetrical environment in current generation warfare to digest the social implications and of technology to society and provides appropriate recommendations.Keywords: communication; generation warfare; hegemony; intelligence; society; socialconvention