Intelligence Analysis Quotes

“Ever since Roberta Wohlstetter’s pathbreaking study of why the United States was taken by surprise at Pearl Harbor 50 years ago, both academics and members of the Intelligence Community (IC) have made significant progress in understanding intelligence failures. About how to correct these errors and do better we know much less, however, and it is to this subject that this volume makes a major contribution. --Foreword to Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action”
― Robert Jervis

“This process is like starting a fitness regimen for the brain. At the beginning, your muscles burn a little. But over time and with repetition, you become stronger, and the improvements you see in yourself can be remarkable. Becoming a better thinker, just like becoming a better athlete, requires practice. We challenge you to feel the burn.”
― Sarah Miller Beebe, Cases in Intelligence Analysis: Structured Analytic Techniques in Action

“You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.”
― Glenn Jones, Introduction to Intelligence Analysis - work in progress

“Management is, in the end, the most creative of all the arts—for its medium is human talent itself.”
― Robert S. McNamara