Strategic Warning Intelligence: History, Challenges, and Prospects - Hardcover

Gentry, John A.; Gordon, Joseph S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626166544 ISBN 13: 9781626166547

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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, outline the capabilities of  analytic methods, explain why strategic warning analysis is so hard, discuss the special challenges strategic warning encounters from senior decisionmakers, 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 also 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.

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About the Author

John A. Gentry is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Joseph S. Gordon is the Colin Powell Chair for Intelligence Analysis at National Intelligence University, president emeritus of the International Association for Intelligence Education, and was formerly an analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626166544
• ISBN 13: 9781626166547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296