Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners' Perspectives, Second Edition
edited by Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce
Georgetown University Press, 2014 Cloth: 978-1-62616-100-9 | eISBN: 978-1-62616-026-2 | Paper: 978-1-62616-025-5 Library of Congress Classification JK468.I6.A843 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 327.1273
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Roger Z. George is professor of national security strategy at the National War College and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the Security Studies Program. He was a career CIA intelligence analyst who served at the State and Defense departments and has been the national intelligence officer for Europe. He is coeditor of several volumes on intelligence and national security studies, most recently The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth.
James B. Bruce is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. A retired career intelligence analyst, he served with CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence and Directorate of Operations, and with the National Intelligence Council as deputy national intelligence officer for science and technology. An adjunct professor at Georgetown University, he has taught previously at the National War College, and as an adjunct at Columbia University and American University.
REVIEWS
-- Jennifer Sims, senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, former deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence coordination, and co-editor of Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks: Rediscovering US Counterintelligence
-- Midwest Book Review
-- Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence
-- Robert M. Gates, former secretary of defense and former director of the CIA
-- Richard K. Betts, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, and author of Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
-- Intelligencer
-- The Intelligencer
-- Christopher Andrew, faculty of history, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, and author of Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface1. Intelligence Analysis: What Is It -- and What Does It Take? James B. Bruce and Roger Z. GeorgePart I: The Analytic Tradition2. The Evolution of Intelligence Analysis in the US Intelligence Community John H. Hedley3. The Track Record of CIA Analysis Richard J. Kerr and Michael Warner4. Is Intelligence Analysis a Discipline? Rebecca Fisher, Rob Johnston, and Peter Clement
Part II: The Policymaker--Analyst Relationship 5. Serving the National Policymaker John McLaughlin6. The Policymaker's Perspective: Transparency and Partnership James B. Steinberg 7. Serving the Senior Military Consumer: A National Agency Perspective John Kringen
Part III: Diagnosis and Prescription 8. Why Bad Things Happen to Good Analysts Jack Davis9. Making Intelligence Analysis More Reliable: Why Epistemology Matters to Intelligence James B. Bruce10. The Missing Link: The Analyst--Collector Relationship James B. Bruce
Part IV: Enduring Challenges11. The Art of Intelligence and Strategy Roger Z. George12. Foreign Deception and Denial: Analytic Imperatives James B. Bruce and Michael Bennett13. Warning in an Age of Uncertainty Roger Z. George and James J. Wirtz
Part V: Analysis for Twenty-First-Century Issues14. Structured Analytic Techniques: A New Approach to Analysis Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr.15. New Analytic Techniques for Tactical Military Intelligence Vincent Stewart, Drew E. Cukor, Joseph Larson III, and Matthew Pottinger16. Domestic Intelligence Analysis Maureen Baginski
Part VI: Leading Analytic Change17. Building a Community of Analysts Thomas Fingar18. The Education and Training of Intelligence Analysts Mark M. Lowenthal19. Analytic Outreach: Pathway to Expertise Building and Professionalization Susan H. Nelson20. Conclusion: Professionalizing Intelligence Analysis in the Twenty-First Century Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce
Analyzing Intelligence: National Security Practitioners' Perspectives, Second Edition
edited by Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce
Georgetown University Press, 2014 Cloth: 978-1-62616-100-9 eISBN: 978-1-62616-026-2 Paper: 978-1-62616-025-5
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Roger Z. George is professor of national security strategy at the National War College and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the Security Studies Program. He was a career CIA intelligence analyst who served at the State and Defense departments and has been the national intelligence officer for Europe. He is coeditor of several volumes on intelligence and national security studies, most recently The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth.
James B. Bruce is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. A retired career intelligence analyst, he served with CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence and Directorate of Operations, and with the National Intelligence Council as deputy national intelligence officer for science and technology. An adjunct professor at Georgetown University, he has taught previously at the National War College, and as an adjunct at Columbia University and American University.
REVIEWS
-- Jennifer Sims, senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, former deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence coordination, and co-editor of Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks: Rediscovering US Counterintelligence
-- Midwest Book Review
-- Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence
-- Robert M. Gates, former secretary of defense and former director of the CIA
-- Richard K. Betts, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, and author of Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
-- Intelligencer
-- The Intelligencer
-- Christopher Andrew, faculty of history, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, and author of Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface1. Intelligence Analysis: What Is It -- and What Does It Take? James B. Bruce and Roger Z. GeorgePart I: The Analytic Tradition2. The Evolution of Intelligence Analysis in the US Intelligence Community John H. Hedley3. The Track Record of CIA Analysis Richard J. Kerr and Michael Warner4. Is Intelligence Analysis a Discipline? Rebecca Fisher, Rob Johnston, and Peter Clement
Part II: The Policymaker--Analyst Relationship 5. Serving the National Policymaker John McLaughlin6. The Policymaker's Perspective: Transparency and Partnership James B. Steinberg 7. Serving the Senior Military Consumer: A National Agency Perspective John Kringen
Part III: Diagnosis and Prescription 8. Why Bad Things Happen to Good Analysts Jack Davis9. Making Intelligence Analysis More Reliable: Why Epistemology Matters to Intelligence James B. Bruce10. The Missing Link: The Analyst--Collector Relationship James B. Bruce
Part IV: Enduring Challenges11. The Art of Intelligence and Strategy Roger Z. George12. Foreign Deception and Denial: Analytic Imperatives James B. Bruce and Michael Bennett13. Warning in an Age of Uncertainty Roger Z. George and James J. Wirtz
Part V: Analysis for Twenty-First-Century Issues14. Structured Analytic Techniques: A New Approach to Analysis Randolph H. Pherson and Richards J. Heuer Jr.15. New Analytic Techniques for Tactical Military Intelligence Vincent Stewart, Drew E. Cukor, Joseph Larson III, and Matthew Pottinger16. Domestic Intelligence Analysis Maureen Baginski
Part VI: Leading Analytic Change17. Building a Community of Analysts Thomas Fingar18. The Education and Training of Intelligence Analysts Mark M. Lowenthal19. Analytic Outreach: Pathway to Expertise Building and Professionalization Susan H. Nelson20. Conclusion: Professionalizing Intelligence Analysis in the Twenty-First Century Roger Z. George and James B. Bruce
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ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC