Final Essay Lesson 8
During this course, you had ample time to review historical events tied to different authors viewpoints on how the advanced intelligence analysis concept is integrated into national security. In some cases you discerned what subject matter experts had to apply on short notice to provide policy makers with answers. In other examples, policy makers had time to ascertain possible enemy actions against the nation but did little to amplify the alarm in an intelligently aggressive manner.
For your assignment, should you decide to accept it, you are to choose an intelligence failure in US history (and not one used in previous submissions) and address these items with supporting evidence and within the style manual for citations:
Detail what intelligence reform was needed to avert similar failures
Describe the challenges of Intelligence reform, if any, that might have assisted in preventing the failure
Tie all of this together for a final assessment of success if you were in charge and had to do it all over again
Your analysis is limited only by your imagination. Note the change in pages required which do not include the cover page or citations. Also note the deadline is earlier on Wednesday since grades are due first thing the following Monday. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Type: Individual Essay
Length: 11 Pages Full without Cover page
Please have a cover page for this assignment.
Required Readings:
Bruce Berkowitz, Intelligence Reform: Less is More, Hoover Digest, April 30, 2004. Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Gregory F. Treverton, C. Bryan Gabbard, Assessing the Tradecraft of Intelligence Analysis (Rand Corporation Technical Report Series) pp. 33 52.
Mike McConnell , Overhauling Intelligence. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007.
Recommended Readings:
Martin Petersen, What I Learned in 40 Years of Doing Intelligence Analysis for US Foreign Policymakers, (Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA 2011).
Jack Devine, An Intelligence Reform Reality Check, Washington Post, Monday, February 18, 2008.
Mark M. Lowenthal, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. (5th edition). Washington D. C: CQ Press, 2011. Chapter 14.
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