Analyzing intelligence : national security practitioners' perspectives / Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce, editors ; in Cooperation with the Center for Security Studies, with support from the George T. Kalaris Fund for Intelligence Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the profession of intelligence analysis from the practitioner's point of view. The contributors - most of whom have held senior positions in the US intelligence community - review the evolution of the field and...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Burton L. Gerber and Rosalie P. Gerber Endowment for the MSU Libraries. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 381 pages ; 26 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Intelligence analysis, what it is
- and what does it take? / James B. Bruce and Roger Z. George
- Part I: The analytic tradition
- The evolution of intelligence analysis in the US intelligence community / John H. Hedley
- The track record of CIA analysis / Richard J. Kerr and Michael Warner
- Is intelligence analysis a discipline? / Rebecca Fisher, Rob Johnston, and Peter Clement
- Part II: The policymaker-Analyst relationship
- Serving the national policymaker / John McLaughlin
- The policymaker's perspective: Transparency and partnership / James B. Steinberg
- Serving the senior military consumer: A national agency perspective / John Kringen
- Part III: 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
- Part IV: Enduring challenges
- The art of strategy and intelligence / Roger Z. George
- Foreign denial and deception: Analytic imperatives / James B. Bruce and Michael Bennett
- Warning in an age of uncertainty / Roger Z. George and James J. Wirtz
- Part V: Analysis for twenty-first-century issues
- Structured analytic techniques: A new approach to analysis / Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr.
- New analytic techniques for tactical military intelligence / Vincent Stewart, Drew Cukor, Joseph Larson III, and Matthew Pottinger
- Domestic intelligence analysis / Maureen Baginski
- Part VI: Leading analytic change
- Building a community of analysts / Thomas Fingar
- The education and training of intelligence analysts / Mark M. Lowenthal
- Analytic outreach: Pathway to expertise building and professionalization / Susan H. Nelson
- Conclusion: Professionalizing intelligence analysis in the twenty-first century / Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce.