Robert M. Clark 
Intelligence Analysis [EPUB ebook] 
A Target-Centric Approach

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

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

Circa l’autore

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 Ph D 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.