John A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of
strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first
century. Strategic warning—the process of long-range analysis to
alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that
require action—is a critical intelligence function. It also is
frequently misunderstood and underappreciated. Gentry and Gordon
draw on both their practitioner and academic backgrounds to present
a history of the strategic warning function in the US intelligence
community. In doing so, they outline the capabilities of analytic
methods, explain why strategic warning analysis is so hard, and
discuss the special challenges strategic warning encounters from
senior decision-makers. They also compare how strategic warning
functions in other countries, evaluate why the United States has in
recent years emphasized current intelligence instead of strategic
warning, and recommend warning-related structural and procedural
improvements in the US intelligence community. The authors examine
historical case studies, including postmortems of warning failures,
to provide examples of the analytic points they make. Strategic
Warning Intelligence will interest scholars and practitioners and
will be an ideal teaching text for intermediate and advanced
students.
General
Imprint: |
Georgetown University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2019 |
Authors: |
John A. Gentry
• Joseph S Gordon
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
274 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-62616-654-7 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-62616-654-4 |
Barcode: |
9781626166547 |
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