Time and Narrative in Intelligence Analysis : A New Framework for the Production of Meaning / Joshua Yaphe.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Part I Quality and Standards -- 1 Establishing a Framework -- 2 Apartheid in South Africa, 1952 -- Part II Theory and Practice -- 3 Definitions of Intelligence Analysis -- 4 Elections in Italy, 1953 -- Part III Sense-making and Signification -- 5 Allowing for Subjective Experience -- 6 Saddam Hussein's Survival, 1992 -- Part IV Narrative and Storytelling -- 7 Reconceiving the Intelligence Cycle -- 8 Sino-Soviet Split, 1949 -- Part V Time and Historical Consciousness -- 9 Objective and Subjective Time -- 10 Cultural Revolution in China, 1966 -- Part VI Bias and Empathy -- 11 Understanding Intelligence Failures -- 12 Juan Per on's Argentina, 1955 -- Part VII Humans and Algorithms -- 13 Conclusion -- Index.

This book offers a new framework and set of standards for intelligence analysis, drawing from a variety of academic disciplines, such as philosophy, historiography, literary theory and semiotics. The US Intelligence Community is guided by a conviction that its practitioners are engaged in the scientific pursuit of fact-based evidence and its institutions uphold a set of tradecraft skills based on objectivity, timeliness and non-politicization that serve to define professionalism. That approach is counterintuitive to the way analysts actually seek to use language and rhetoric to convince and persuade readers, and counterproductive to the future recruitment and retention of subject matter experts. This book re-examines the assumptions and biases that underlie the intelligence profession in America and its increasing turn toward Artificial Intelligence, with case studies of declassified analytical products on Argentina, China, Iraq, Italy and South Africa. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence, national security, philosophy, US politics and foreign policy.

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