Intelligence Analysis - A Target-Centric Approach

Now in its Sixth Edition, Robert M. Clark's Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach once again delivers a consistent, clear method for teaching intelligence analysis demonstrating how a collaborative, target-centric approach leads to sharper and more effective analysis. This bestseller also includes new end-of-chapter questions to spark classroom discussion, as well as material on the intelligence cycle, collection, managing analysis, and dealing with intelligence customers. Clark s practical approach combined with his insider perspective create the ideal resource for students and practitioners alike.

List of contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Preface
What's New?
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Process, the Participants, and the Product
Chapter 1: Introduction
Why Intelligence Fails
What the Book Is About
Summary
Notes
Chapter 2: Intelligence in the Age of Contested Norms and Persistent Disorder
Nature of Twenty-First-Century Conflict
Tools of Conflict
The Function of Intelligence
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 3: The Intelligence Process
The Traditional Intelligence Cycle
Intelligence as a Target-Centric Process
The Target
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 4: The Customer
Overview of Customers
Identifying the Customer
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 5: The Analyst
Critical and Logical Thinking
Objectivity
Broad Perspective
Good Instincts
The Analyst's Role
Analytic Teams
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 6: The Analytic Network
The U.S. National Intelligence Network
Homeland Security
Military
Law Enforcement
Collaboration and Sharing
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 7: The Intelligence Product
Intelligence Research
Current Intelligence
Indications and Warning
What Should an Intelligence Unit Produce?
Constraints on the Intelligence Product
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Part II: The Analysis Process
Chapter 8: The Intelligence Issue
Preliminary Questions
Issue Definition
Issue Decomposition
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 9: Target Models
Modeling the Intelligence Target
Some General Target Models
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 10: The Target Framework
Creating a Target Framework
Issue 1: Al-Shabaab Ideology
Issue 2: Influencing Azerbaijan
Issue 3: The Monopolitania BW Threat
Alternative and Competitive Target Frameworks
The Dynamic Framework
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 11: Analyzing Existing Intelligence
Existing Finished Intelligence
Sources of Raw Intelligence
Evaluating Evidence
Combining Evidence
Structured Argumentation
A Note about the Role of Information Technology
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 12: The Information Sources: Filling Gaps
Interrelating the Issue Decomposition and Target Framework
Identifying Gaps
Developing the Collection Strategy
Executing Collection Strategies
Analyst-Collector Interaction
Evaluating Collection
Collection Requirements
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 13: Denial, Deception, and Signaling
Denial
Deception
Defense against Denial and Deception: Protecting Intelligence Sources and Methods
Countering Denial and Deception
Signaling
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 14: Gaining Customer Acceptance
Structuring the Message
Presenting the Message
Reviewing the Analytic Product
Customer Interaction
Analyst as Advocate: Getting Buy-In
Aftermath: Dealing with Unexpected Outcomes
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Part III: Anticipatory Analysis and Modeling
Chapter 15: Anticipatory Analysis: Forces
Background Forces
Synergy
Causal Models
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 16: Anticipatory Analysis: Methodology
Convergent and Divergent Phenomena
The Estimative Approach
Unintended Consequences
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 17: Outcome Scenarios
Why Use Scenarios?
Types of Scenarios
Scenario Perspectives
How to Construct Scenarios
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 18: Systems Modeling and Analysis
Systems Analysis Methodology
Performance
Process
Risk
Cost
Operations Research
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 19: Relationship Modeling and Analysis
Link Models
Network Models
Network Analysis
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 20: Geospatial Modeling and Analysis
Static Geospatial Models
Dynamic Geospatial Models
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 21: Simulation Modeling
Types of Simulations
Creating and Running a Simulation
Simulations Used in Intelligence Analysis
Decision Modeling and Simulation
Checking the Decision Model: Red Team Analysis
Summary
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
Chapter 22: Case Study: A Tale of Two NIEs
The Yugoslavia NIE
The Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction NIE
Critical Thinking Questions
Notes
List of Commonly Used Acronyms
Index
About the Author

Report

[Intelligence Analysis] provides a very comprehensive and well organized depiction of the intelligence function; it is well written, straightforward, and readable; and the tables, figures, graphs and maps are all appropriate and supportive of the reader s understanding of the text because they clearly depict data and processes. Vincent Henry

Product details

• Authors: Robert M. Clark, Robert M. M. Clark
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2019
• EAN: 9781544369143
• ISBN: 978-1-5443-6914-3
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Spionage und Geheimdienste, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, Politics / Current Events, True Crime / Espionage