| Description |
17 pages : color illustrations (digital, PDF file) |
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Working paper |
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Working paper (Center for a New American Security)
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| Contents |
Executive summary -- Introduction -- Japan's strategic environment and self-defense rationale for ISR -- The past, present and future of ISR -- The future of Japanese ISR -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, which are strategically important in peacetime, are a vital national asset in crises when time is a critical factor in decision-making and demands for information escalate drastically. In recent years, Japan's security environment has grown increasingly less secure, making the collection and dissemination of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) information more important than ever to Japan's defense. This report argues that ISR is important for Japan's strategic defense in particular and for regional security in general. It examines the role of ISR capabilities; analyzes Japan's shifting strategic environment and growing need for improved ISR capabilities and integration, including ground-based analysis and use of the information that is retrieved; and assesses how Japan might utilize enhanced ISR through its alliance with the United States, by bolstering its national capacity, and by cooperating with other key countries in the wider Asia-Pacific region |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 20, 2010) |
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"December 2010." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 17) |
| Notes |
Mode of access: Internet from Center for a New American Security web site. Adobe Acrobat Reader required |
| Subject |
Military intelligence -- Japan
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Military surveillance -- Japan
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Aerial reconnaissance -- Japan
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Military reconnaissance.
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National security -- Japan
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Aerial reconnaissance.
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Military intelligence.
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Military readiness.
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Military reconnaissance.
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Military surveillance.
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National security.
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| SUBJECT |
Japan -- Defenses
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| Subject |
Japan.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Giarra, Paul, 1949-
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Center for a New American Security.
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