I wrote Terrorism: A Growth Industry and the Intelligence Analyst as a text book for certain students of Corinthian Colleges Incorporated. It describes the intelligence cycle but more importantly demonstrates how the cycle operates by developing a series of problem stories where the creation of intelligence is necessary.
If you are interested in the basics of the intelligence business this book is for you. From this book you can gather ideas about strategic intelligence planning, tactical intelligence techniques and industrial intelligence as well.
The book teaches through story telling and avoids long lists of procedures or steps one must memorize to put together an intelligence program. Give it a read and you will definitely have a better understanding of intelligence and you might even get a laugh or two. I've included a short excerpt below.
Richard Wilmot
THE ANALYST
Analysts should know that there are situations where members of the establishment will not listen. And also be aware that the higher up you are in the bureaucracy the more difficult it is to get action. If you find that gem of information that sets your intuition all aglow, keep pushing and striving to get someone’s attention and follow up action. Don’t give up, be the squeaky wheel, be the conscience of the industry.
KEY TERRAIN
Possibly the most famous piece of key terrain in history is in Israel at the site of what was the town of Armageddon. For thousands of years hundreds of pitched battles were fought at Armageddon as invaders tried to take this prominent terrain feature and the town. Its value stemmed from the fact that whoever controlled Armageddon controlled the caravan route along the shores of the Mediterranean. The occupiers of Armageddon taxed the caravans that traveled the route below and its citizens lived the good life.
Armageddon had one other very important feature---it had a well and that well provided good, clear, pure, cool, sweet water. One day a couple of millennia ago, the well went dry. Armageddon lost its value as a key terrain feature because it could not sustain life and it disappeared over night.
TERRORISM
The real secret of effective terrorism is leveraging. Go cheap and leverage by using that which is available while taking out a major target. Make the event significant enough to create headlines, and this will set terror loose within the general population and such fear will modify the daily life of the average citizen---the bottom line is the terrorist WINS.
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