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Robert M. Clark’s Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach demonstrates that a collaborative, target-centric approach leads to sharper and more effective analysis, while better meeting the needs of the customer. Thoroughly revised to reflect the changes in the constantly shifting landscape of intelligence, the Fifth Edition contains a new chapter that frames the nature of intelligence in 21st century conflict. The book also accounts for recent events such as the rise of ISIL and the conflict in Ukraine, and contains new examples throughout. Clark’s practical information and insider perspective create the perfect resource for students and practitioners alike.
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This volume presents an intelligence analysis process and specific analysis techniques meant to reduce failures. The process is target-centric by using a collaborative approach for intelligence collectors, analysts, and customers to provide intelligence that is relevant to customer needs for forming policy and conducting operations. It draws on existing prediction methodologies used in organizational planning and problem solving, science and engineering, law, and economics to make intelligence predictions, and details defining the intelligence issue; conceptual frameworks and models for intelligence analysis; understanding denial, deception, and signaling; systems, network, and geospatial and temporal modeling and analysis; and the estimative process, its methodology, forces that shape future events and situations, and how to apply scenario creation and simulation modeling. Revised, this edition has a new chapter on the nature of intelligence in 21st-century conflicts, new chapters on systems and network views of analysis, a new appendix on presenting analysis results, discussion of the rise of ISIL and the conflict in Ukraine, and new examples. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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