Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners' Perspectives Second Edition

This edited volume provides practitioners' vies of issues and practices of US intelligence analysis. Thirty chapters are presented on: the analytic tradition, the policymaker-analyst relationship, diagnosis and prescription, enduring challenges, analysis for 21st-century issues, and change leadership in intelligence analysis. The editors make little note regarding the specifics of changes between this edition and the previous. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Analyzing Intelligence, now in a revised and extensively updated second edition, assesses the state of 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, the rise of new challenges, and how intelligence analysis is changing -- and must change -- to deal with 21st century national security problems. New chapters highlight advances in the intelligence community in structured analytic techniques, training, expertise-building, and professional development. Written for national security practitioners and for scholars and students studying the role of intelligence, its strengths and weaknesses, and its future directions, Analyzing Intelligence is essential reading for anyone seeking an understanding of the role and performance of analysis in US intelligence.
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 analysis, along with expertise-building, training, and professional development. New chapters by practitioners broaden the original volume's discussion of the analyst-policymaker relationship by addressing analytic support to the military customer as well as by demonstrating how structured analysis can benefit military commanders on the battlefield. Analyzing Intelligence is written for national security practitioners such as producers and users of intelligence, as well as for scholars and students seeking to understand the nature and role of intelligence analysis, its strengths and weaknesses, and steps that can improve it and lead it to a more recognizable profession.The most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on professional intelligence analysis as practiced in the US Government, Analyzing Intelligence is essential reading for practitioners and users of intelligence analysis, as well as for students and scholars in security studies and related fields.