Thinking straight and talking straight: problems of intelligence analysis / Douglas Hart, Steven Simon

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2006Subject(s): In: Survival Vol. 48, No. 1, Spring 2006, pp.35-60 (106)Summary: Explains why the US is finding it extremely difficult to hire the right people for intelligence work, to train them, or to allow them to collaborate effectively. The causes are said to be pedagogical, cultural, and organisational. Some measures are suggested that could at least partially remedy the weaknesses. Emerging information technologies already being used in commercial organisations and NGOs has the potential to address key aspects of the structural problems facing the intelligence community.
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Explains why the US is finding it extremely difficult to hire the right people for intelligence work, to train them, or to allow them to collaborate effectively. The causes are said to be pedagogical, cultural, and organisational. Some measures are suggested that could at least partially remedy the weaknesses. Emerging information technologies already being used in commercial organisations and NGOs has the potential to address key aspects of the structural problems facing the intelligence community.

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