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Analyzing intelligence origins, obstacles, and innovations

Presents an assessment of the state of intelligence analysis since 9/11. This book includes a critique of why it has under-performed at times. It provides insights regarding the enduring obstacles as well as challenges of analysis in the post-9/11 world, and suggests ideas for improved analytical me...

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Corporate Author: Georgetown University. Center for Peace and Security Studies
Other Authors: George, Roger Z. 1949-, Bruce, James B
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC Georgetown University 2008
Subjects:
Intelligence service > United States > Methodology
Military intelligence > United States
National security > United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Emergence of a Discipline / James B. Bruce and Roger Z. George
  • The analytic tradition
  • The evolution of intelligence analysis / John H. Hedley
  • The track record: CIA analysis from 1950-2000 / Richard J. policy-analysis relationship
  • Serving the national policymaker / John McLaughlin
  • A policymaker's perspective: transparency and partnership / James B. Steinberg
  • Intelligence analysis: between "politicization" and irrelevance / Gregory F. Treverton
  • Enduring challenges
  • The art of strategy and analysis / Roger Z. George
  • Foreign denial and deception: analytical perspectives / James B. Bruce and Michael Bennett
  • U.S. military intelligence analysis: old and new challenges / David Thomas
  • Diagnosis and prescription
  • Why bad things happen to good analysts / Jack Davis
  • Making analysis more reliable: why epistemology matters to intelligence / James B. Bruce
  • The missing link: the analyst-collector relationship / James B. Bruce
  • Leading analytic change managing analysis in the information age / John C. Gannon
  • Intelligence in transition: analysis after 9/11 and Iraq / Mark M. Lowenthal
  • The new analysis / Carmen A. Medina
  • New frontiers of analysis
  • Computer-aided analysis of competing hypotheses / Richards J. Heuer Jr.
  • Predictive warning: teams, networks, and scientific method / Timothy J. Smith
  • Homeland Security intelligence: rationale, requirements, and current status / Bruce Berkowitz
  • Conclusion: the age of analysis / Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce

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