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Analyzing intelligence : origins, obstacles, and innovations / Roger Z. George, James B. Bruce, editors ; in cooperation with the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--United States--Methodology.
- Intelligence service.
- Military intelligence--United States.
- Military intelligence.
- National security--United States.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington D.C. : Georgetown University, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on the individual and collective experience of recognized intelligence experts and scholars in the field, Analyzing Intelligence provides the first comprehensive assessment of the state of intelligence analysis since 9/11. Its in-depth and balanced evaluation of more than fifty years of U.S. analysis includes a critique of why it has under-performed at times. It provides insights regarding the enduring obstacles as well as new challenges of analysis in the post-9/11 world, and suggests innovative ideas for improved analytical methods, training, and structured approaches. The book's six
- 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
- Glossary of analytic terms
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58901-239-9
- 1-4356-4869-2
- OCLC:
- 646788666
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