Intelligence Analysis - International Student Edition

Robert M. Clark has more than five decades of U.S. intelligence community experience. A USAF lieutenant colonel (retired), Dr. Clark served as an electronics warfare officer and intelligence officer. At the CIA, he was a senior analyst and group chief responsible for developing analytic methodologies. He was cofounder and CEO of the Scientific and Technical Analysis Corporation, a privately held company serving the U.S. intelligence community. Clark holds an SB from MIT, a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and a JD from George Washington University. Beyond analyzing wicked intelligence issues, his passion is writing on the topic of intelligence. His books include Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (5th edition, 2016), The Technical Collection of Intelligence (2010), and Intelligence Collection (2014). He is coauthor, with Dr. William Mitchell, of Target-Centric Network Modeling (2015) and Deception: Counterdeception and Counterintelligence (2019); and coeditor, with Dr. Mark Lowenthal, of Intelligence Collection: The Five Disciplines (2015). Dr. Clark also develops and teaches courses for audiences in academia, national intelligence, and the military. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University teaching graduate courses.

• Part I. The Process, the Participants, and the ProductChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Intelligence in the Age of Contested Norms and Persistent DisorderChapter 3. The Intelligence ProcessChapter 4. The CustomerChapter 5. The AnalystChapter 6. The Analytic NetworkChapter 7. The Intelligence ProductPart II. The Analysis ProcessChapter 8. The Intelligence IssueChapter 9. Target ModelsChapter 10. The Target FrameworkChapter 11. Analyzing Existing IntelligenceChapter 12. The Information Sources: Filling GapsChapter 13. Denial, Deception, and SignalingChapter 14. Gaining Customer AcceptancePart III. Anticipatory IntelligenceChapter 15. Anticipatory Analysis: ForcesChapter 16. Anticipatory Analysis: MethodologyChapter 17. Outcome ScenariosChapter 18. Systems Modeling and AnalysisChapter 19. Relationship Modeling and AnalysisChapter 20. Geospatial Modeling and AnalysisChapter 21. Simulation ModelingChapter 22. Prescriptive IntelligenceChapter 23. Case Study: A Tale of Two NIEs