UNITED ARAB EMIRATES CONTINUES ITS POLICY OF MODERNIZING INTELLIGENCE SERVICES
The geopolitical evolutions in the Middle East marked by the so-called “Arab Spring”, the conflict in Yemen, the threat represented by the Iranian nuclear program and other global geopolitical developments determined United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) to take some important steps for modernizing and improving its intelligence services starting with the middle of the last decade[2]. As demonstrated by the evolutions of modern intelligence services, the countries enjoying considerable financial resources as it is the case of UAE are developing predominantly their technical segments such as Signal Intelligence and more recently Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is due to the fact that getting certain important results by using technical means for acquiring information is relatively faster and safer as compared to using information gathered by human sources (HUMINT), which requires longer time for readying and exploiting such capabilities[3]. Besides enhancing its intelligence technical ...