Talk:Intelligence analysis management

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This article deals with the roles of processing/analysis in the real-world intelligence cycle as a part of intelligence cycle management. See Intelligence analysis for a discussion of the techniques of analysis. For a hierarchical list of intelligence cycle articles, see the intelligence cycle management hierarchy.

The above is to help understand the context. Potential editors in this, the analysis area, will want to start looking at the more specific Intelligence analysis article, and also, in the Intelligence collection management article, rating raw reports.

[edit] Tweaking the intelligence analysis subhierarchy

Thanks to AzureCitizen for the up-front index hierarchy for this and the top-level article of the series. I certainly don't oppose breaking out articles on techniques of analysis, and making them subordinate to this one. User Chance.williams made some initial efforts in this area, and the idea isn't bad.

For example, some of the "how to" might move into a sub-article, which would pick up analytical tradecraft (a very different subject than Clandestine HUMINT Operational Techniques, which I've started to write). I tend to think the cognitive trap area is so important that it should be in this article, but perhaps someone with more background in cognitive psychology might be able to improve the presentation and put it in a subarticle -- please, with lots of wikilinks, because the cognitive traps show how analysts come to the wrong conclusions.

There's also an area, discussed both in the top-level Intelligence cycle management and Intelligence dissemination management, that deals about the concerns about intelligence consumers (e.g., policymakers) either refuse to believe intelligence analyses, or "cherry pick" to find reports that support their preconceived idea, which is not necessarily that which is true in the real world. Howard C. Berkowitz (talk) 23:01, 17 November 2007 (UTC)