Intelligence Analysis
A Target-Centric Approach
Seventh Edition
August 2022 | 512 pages | CQ Press
Now in its Seventh Edition, Robert M. Clark's Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach once again delivers a consistent, clear method for teaching intelligence analysis, demonstrating how a collaborative, target-centric approach leads to sharper and more effective analysis. In addition to looking at the intelligence cycle, collection, managing analysis, and dealing with intelligence customers, the author also examines key advances and emerging fields like prescriptive intelligence. Through features like end-of-chapter questions to spark classroom discussion, this text combines a practical approach to modeling with an insider perspective to serve as an ideal and insightful resource for students as well as practitioners.
Part I. The Process, the Participants, and the Product
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Intelligence in the Age of Contested Norms and Persistent Disorder
Chapter 3. The Intelligence Process
Chapter 4. The Customer
Chapter 5. The Analyst
Chapter 6. The Analytic Network
Chapter 7. The Intelligence Product
Part II. The Analysis Process
Chapter 8. The Intelligence Issue
Chapter 9. Target Models
Chapter 10. The Target Framework
Chapter 11. Analyzing Existing Intelligence
Chapter 12. The Information Sources: Filling Gaps
Chapter 13. Denial, Deception, and Signaling
Chapter 14. Gaining Customer Acceptance
Part III. Anticipatory Intelligence
Chapter 15. Anticipatory Analysis: Forces
Chapter 16. Anticipatory Analysis: Methodology
Chapter 17. Outcome Scenarios
Chapter 18. Systems Modeling and Analysis
Chapter 19. Relationship Modeling and Analysis
Chapter 20. Geospatial Modeling and Analysis
Chapter 21. Simulation Modeling
Chapter 22. Prescriptive Intelligence
Chapter 23. Case Study: A Tale of Two NIEs
Text provides additional insight to conducting intelligence analysis.
College of Strategic Intelligence, National Intelligence University
July 1, 2023
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Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
January 8, 2023
Sample Materials & Chapters
Chapter 2 Intelligence in the Age of Contested Norms and Persistent Disorder