Analyzing intelligence : national security practitioners' perspectives
Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioners point of view. The contributors-most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community-review the evolution of the field, the rise of new challenges, pitfalls in analysis, and the lessons from new training and techniques designed to deal with 21st century national security problems. This second edition updates this indispensable book with new chapters that highlight advances in applying more analytic rigor to an
eBook, English, 2014
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Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2014
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9781626160262, 1626160260
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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Intelligence Analysis, What Is It-and What Does It Take?
Part I The Analytic Tradition
Chapter 2 The Evolution of Intelligence Analysis in the US Intelligence Community
Chapter 3 The Track Record of CIA Analysis
Chapter 4 Is Intelligence Analysis a Discipline?
Part II The Policymaker-Analyst Relationship
Chapter 5 Serving the National Policymaker
Chapter 6 The Policymaker's Perspective: Transparency and Partnership
Chapter 7 Serving the Senior Military Consumer: A National Agency Perspective
Part III Diagnosis and Prescription
Chapter 8 Why Bad Things Happen to Good Analysts
Chapter 9 Making Analysis More Reliable: Why Epistemology Matters to Intelligence
Chapter 10 The Missing Link: The Analyst-Collector Relationship
Part IV Enduring Challenges
Chapter 11 The Art of Strategy and Intelligence
Chapter 12 Foreign Denial and Deception: Analytic Imperatives
Chapter 13 Warning in an Age of Uncertainty
Part V Analysis for Twenty-First-Century Issues
Chapter 14 Structured Analytic Techniques: A New Approach to Analysis
Chapter 15 New Analytic Techniques for Tactical Military Intelligence
Chapter 16 Domestic Intelligence Analysis
Part VI Leading Analytic Change
Chapter 17 Building a Community of Analysts
Chapter 18 The Education and Training of Intelligence Analysts
Chapter 19 Analytic Outreach: Pathway to Expertise Building and Professionalization
Chapter 20 Conclusion: Professionalizing Intelligence Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
Glossary of Analysis Terms
Contributors
Index
"In Cooperation with the Center for Security Studies Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University."