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This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics.
The US Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of fact-based evidence and its institutions uphold a set of tradecraft skills based on objectivity, timeliness and non-politicization that serve to define professionalism. That approach is counterintuitive to the way analysts actually seek to use language and rhetoric to convince and persuade readers, and counterproductive to the future recruitment and retention of subject matter experts. This book re-examines the assumptions and biases that underlie the intelligence profession in America and its increasing turn toward Artificial Intelligence, with case studies of declassified analytical products on Argentina, China, Iraq, Italy and South Africa.
This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence, national security, philosophy, US politics and foreign policy.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Establishing a Framework Chapter 2: Apartheid in South Africa, 1952 Chapter 3: Definitions of Intelligence Analysis Chapter 4: Elections in Italy, 1953 Chapter 5: Allowing for Subjective Experience Chapter 6: Saddam Hussein's Survival, 1992 Chapter 7: Reconceiving the Intelligence Cycle Chapter 8: Sino-Soviet Split, 1949 Chapter 9: Objective and Subjective Time Chapter 10: Cultural Revolution in China, 1966 Chapter 11: Understanding Intelligence Failures Chapter 12: Juan Perón's Argentina, 1955 Chapter 13: Conclusion
About the author
Joshua Yaphe is Senior Fellow at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, DC, and a regular contributor to its journal,
The National Interest. He has a PhD from American University and served as Senior Analyst for the Arabian Peninsula at the US Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).
