Acknowledgements
PART I: Where We are Today
Preface - Intelligence Persists
Chapter 1 - Introducing Intelligence Engineering (IE)
Chapter 2 - Intelligence as ‘Art’ and ‘Science’
PART II: Improving Intelligence Engineering
Chapter 3 - The Intelligence and Operations Nexus
Chapter 4 - Advancing an IE-based Framework for Risk
PART III: Bringing it All Together
Chapter 5 - Conclusions and Other Cautions
Appendix - IE Mapping Templates
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Adam D. M. Svendsen is an intelligence and defence strategist, educator, and researcher. He is an associate consultant at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Denmark, and a co-founder and co-director of the Bridgehead Institute (Research & Consulting).
[Svendsen] provide[s] a substantial framework for enhancing the
analyst’s view and understanding of the world. Nurtured carefully,
this can be turned into a competitive advantage against any given
target.... Adam D. M. Svendsen offers an original and interesting
idea in this book. Moreover, he develops a framework for how this
idea can bolster intelligence in the 21 century. His methodology
and list of references reveals that coming up with this innovative
framework has been no walk in the park and has taken years of
expert research.
*Global Readers' Club*
Adam Svendsen provides a new intellectual framework for generating
analysis that meets the standard of being comprehensively
exhaustive and mutually exclusive. As a practitioner and
facilitator of Strategic Foresight Analysis, I believe the various
systems of systems approaches described in the book are
particularly valuable in helping students be more rigorous in
identifying critical forces, factors, and events likely to shape
future events.
*Randolph H. Pherson, former National Intelligence Officer for
Latin America, CEO of Globalytica, LLC, and co-author of Structured
Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis*
All security and intelligence scholars will find much to stimulate
their thinking in this book. Its depth and scope, variety of
intelligence systems explored and the advanced nature of the
argument provokes considerable insight into the role of data and
information in human systems. As he has done before, Svendsen once
again helps us think more sophisticatedly about how modern and
emergent intelligence is done. Intelligence Engineering is not only
a discussion of how states seek to learn about other states or
actors, but is instead a microcosm of the networked systems that we
all live in today.
*David J. Galbreath, Centre for War and Technology, University of
Bath*
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