The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
QUESTION: A client wants to spend Euro 100 on intelligence analysis books. What are your thoughts? ANSWER: An interesting question. A major problem with all the works on analytic reasoning is that they assume the analyst has access to a sufficiency of unbiased useful data, and that is never true.
What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers Martin Petersen, Studies in Intelligence, 2011 PDF (8 Pages): Petersen-What I Learned-20Apr2011 Policymakers do not always see how we can help them.
Intelligence Analysis Follow up on Robert Steele & Anonymous: Most Analysis Software Sucks — And Story of How Steele Correctly Called BSA Not Being Signed in Afghanistan The usefulness of computer aids to intelligence analysis (“tools”) depends a good deal on what sort of ‘intelligence’ you are talking about. Intelligence is information that has been …
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Ilkka Salmi, the EU’s spymaster Information on the latest developments in Ukraine is of utmost importance for European policy makers. A crucial player in this field is the EU Intelligence Analysis Centre (INTCEN), the EU’s own intelligence hub in Brussels. Director Ilkka Salmi: ‘Our reporting helps the European External Action Service and other European institutions …
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CALL FOR PAPERS from the Journal of Intelligence Analysis for its Fall 2014 Issue on Intelligence Canaries: Applications in Strategic Early Warning – Towards a New Intelligence Analysis Paradigm*. Guest editor: Robert C. Fahlman, O.O.M.; Director General, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Criminal Intelligence (Retired). The predominant analytical methodologies, applications and tools employed across the …
Wayne Michael Hall and Gary Citrenbaum 4.0 out of 5 stars Utterly Brilliant, Mind-Glazing, 440 Pages of Straight Text, December 2, 2013 You could read this book a hundred times and learn something new every time. I have taken off one star because the book is too dense by far, with not a single graphic, …
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CFP: “Intelligence: Analysis, Tradecraft, Training, Education, and Practical Application” Journal of Strategic Security Deadline: June 1, 2013 Submission Guidelines Submit Online Join our LinkedIn Group The Journal of Strategic Security (JSS), a publication of Henley-Putnam University, seeks manuscripts for an upcoming issue on intelligence analytic tradecraft, training, education, and practical application for the Fall 2013 …
