Intelligence Analysis - Behavioral and Social Scientific Foundations

The U.S. intelligence community (IC) is a complex human enterprise whose success depends on how well the people in it perform their work. Although often aided by sophisticated technologies, these people ultimately rely on their own intellect to identify, synthesize, and communicate the information on which the nation's security depends. The IC's success depends on having trained, motivated, and thoughtful people working within organizations able to understand, value, and coordinate their capabilities.

Intelligence Analysis provides up-to-date scientific guidance for the intelligence community (IC) so that it might improve individual and group judgments, communication between analysts, and analytic processes. The papers in this volume provide the detailed evidentiary base for the National Research Council's report, Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences. The opening chapter focuses on the structure, missions, operations, and characteristics of the IC while the following 12 papers provide in-depth reviews of key topics in three areas: analytic methods, analysts, and organizations.

Informed by the IC's unique missions and constraints, each paper documents the latest advancements of the relevant science and is a stand-alone resource for the IC's leadership and workforce. The collection allows readers to focus on one area of interest (analytic methods, analysts, or organizations) or even one particular aspect of a category. As a collection, the volume provides a broad perspective of the issues involved in making difficult decisions, which is at the heart of intelligence analysis.

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• Authors: Cognitive Board on Behavioral, Board On Behavioral Cognitive And Sensor, Board on Behavioral Cognitive and Sensory Sciences, Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security, Division Of Behavioral And Social Scienc, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council
• Assisted by: Cherie Chauvin (Editor), Baruch Fischhoff (Editor), Baruch (Carnegie Mellon University Fischhoff (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2011
• EAN: 9780309176989
• ISBN: 978-0-309-17698-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 224 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration