Security Systems

I have been thinking about security. Security in the context of national security and global strategic issues.

It seems to me, the outsider, that the kinds of total and complete security systems that are required to keep the world safe from terrorists, terrorism and rogue-state activities are likely anathema to the sorts of organisations that are tasked with providing such security. Holistic, all-encompassing organisational activity and structure is unlikely to be achieved within rigid, static and highly hierarchical bureaucracies. It is a Catch 22.

Precisely what is needed is precisely what is impossible within a strictly hierarchical organisation. Of course - I am merely speculating and as an observer of global current affairs and the news. I think, however, that there is a case to be answered for conceiving of and deploying far more organic, flexible and adaptive organisational systems and activities to deal with the innumerable threats and emerging problems that security and defense organisations have to counter.