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Reducing Uncertainty - Intelligence Analysis and National Security (Hardcover)
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Reducing Uncertainty - Intelligence Analysis and National Security (Hardcover)
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The US government spends billions of dollars every year to reduce
uncertainty: to monitor and forecast everything from the weather to
the spread of disease. In other words, we spend a lot of money to
anticipate problems, identify opportunities, and avoid mistakes. A
substantial portion of what we spend--over $50 billion a year--goes
to the US Intelligence Community.
"Reducing Uncertainty" describes what Intelligence Community
analysts do, how they do it, and how they are affected by the
political context that shapes, uses, and sometimes abuses their
output. In particular, it looks at why IC analysts pay more
attention to threats than to opportunities, and why they appear to
focus more on warning about the possibility of "bad things"
happening than on providing the input necessary for increasing the
likelihood of positive outcomes.
The book is intended to increase public understanding of what IC
analysts do, to elicit more relevant and constructive suggestions
for improvement from outside the Intelligence Community, to
stimulate innovation and collaboration among analysts at all grade
levels in all agencies, and to provide a core resource for students
of intelligence. The most valuable aspect of this book is the
in-depth discussion of National Intelligence Estimates--what they
are, what it means to say that they represent the "most
authoritative judgments of the Intelligence Community," why and how
they are important, and why they have such high political salience
and symbolic importance. The final chapter lays out, from an
insider's perspective, the story of the flawed Iraq WMD NIE and its
impact on the subsequent Iran nuclear NIE--paying particular
attention to the heightened political scrutiny the latter received
in Congress following the Iraq NIE debacle.
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