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Strategic Warning Intelligence

History, Challenges, and Prospects
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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.
ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction 1. Concepts of Strategic Warning Intelligence2. Four Classic Warning Cases3. Types of Government Warning Institutions4. The Evolution of U.S., British, Dutch, and NATO Warning Institutions5. Warning Methodological Issues6. The "Indications and Warning" Analytic Method7. Other Warning Analytic Techniques8. Cognitive, Psychological, and Character Issues9. Producers of Warning Intelligence beyond Formal Intelligence Communities10. Dealing with Senior Intelligence Consumers11. Institutional Issues12. The Future of Strategic Warning Intelligence BibliographyIndex About the Authors
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