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This book on intelligence analysis written by intelligence expert Dr. Stephen Marrin argues that scholarship can play a valuable role in improving intelligence analysis. Improving intelligence analysis requires bridging the gap between scholarship and practice. Compared to the more established academic disciplines of political science and international relations, intelligence studies scholarship is generally quite relevant to practice. Yet a substantial gap exists nonetheless. Even though there are many intelligence analysts, very few of them are aware of the various writings on intellige

Defining intelligence analysis -- The intelligence cycle -- Thinking about thinking -- Perception and deception -- Knowing your audience -- Analytical communication -- Defining the problem -- Generating the hypothesis -- The collection process -- Analytical tradecraft -- Cognitive traps for intelligence analysis -- Probability estimation -- Creating an analytical plan -- Preparing and conducting intelligence briefings -- Best practices -- Operations security opsec

"Intelligence Analysis: Once Again" published on by Oxford University Press.

These essays cover: assessment systems now in place in Britain, the USA, Germany and Australia; the bureaucratic dynamics of analysis and assessment; the changing ground in intelligence; and the impact of new technologies and modes of communication on intelligence gathering and analysis.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence "Report on the US Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq," dated 7 July 2004, provides a remarkably detailed account of the information available to the intelligence community prior to the war in Iraq & how it was analyzed. The general impression it gives is one of unconscionable failure, due to the intelligence community's very poor analysis of the information. Unfortunately, the magnitude & breadth of the Committees criticism shows a serious lack of understanding of the problems intelligence analysts face when making judgments based on incomplete, ambiguous, & potentially deceptive information. 3 Figures. M. Williamson