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Handbook of warning intelligence : complete and declassified edition / Cynthia Grabo with Jan Goldman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanham [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]Description: xx, 433 pages 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442248120 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JF 1525.I6 G73 2015
Contents:
Foreword to the new edition -- Foreword to the previous edition -- Author's note to the original edition -- Part 1. Why warning intelligence and what is it? Some fundamentals -- Part 2. Organization and tools of the trade -- Part 3. Introduction to the analytical method -- Part 4. Specific problems of military analysis -- Part 5. Specific problems of political, civil and economic analysis -- Part 6. Some major analytical problems -- Part 7. Problems of particular types of warfare -- Part 8. Reaching and reporting the warning judgment -- Part 9. Conclusions.
Summary: The Handbook was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years. Originally written as a manual for training intelligence analysts, it explains the fundamentals of intelligence analysis and forecasting, discusses military analysis, as well as the difficulties in understanding political, civil, and economic analysis and assessing what it means for analysts to have "warning judgment." This new edition includes the final ten chapters recently released by the government. This is the manuscript as it was originally intended to be published by the author in 1972. --Amazon.co.uk
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Previous ed. published: Lanham, Maryland : Scarecrow Press, 2010, under title Handbook of warning intelligence, as part of the Scarecrow professional intelligence education series, no. 12.

Foreword to the new edition -- Foreword to the previous edition -- Author's note to the original edition -- Part 1. Why warning intelligence and what is it? Some fundamentals -- Part 2. Organization and tools of the trade -- Part 3. Introduction to the analytical method -- Part 4. Specific problems of military analysis -- Part 5. Specific problems of political, civil and economic analysis -- Part 6. Some major analytical problems -- Part 7. Problems of particular types of warfare -- Part 8. Reaching and reporting the warning judgment -- Part 9. Conclusions.

The Handbook was written during the cold war and was classified for 40 years. Originally written as a manual for training intelligence analysts, it explains the fundamentals of intelligence analysis and forecasting, discusses military analysis, as well as the difficulties in understanding political, civil, and economic analysis and assessing what it means for analysts to have "warning judgment." This new edition includes the final ten chapters recently released by the government. This is the manuscript as it was originally intended to be published by the author in 1972. --Amazon.co.uk

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