Intelligence Analysts Need Training on How to Think

Abstract

Never in history has there been a more critical time when the United States military has had to focus on how military intelligence analysts are trained to fight today's battles to win tomorrow's wars. Soldiers need instruction that will enable them to more effectively combat the current threat. It has been an ongoing struggle to adapt to unconventional methods. Now that the US is in a new kind of war, it is important to train soldiers not only to win today, but win in the future as well. Soldiers must focus not on the current temporary fix, but on a solid foundation that will work tomorrow. This can be accomplished by training analysts to have a better understanding of their own thinking processes and thereby allow them to predict the enemy's actions more accurately. It is important to define the problems associated with training analysts in order to develop a more functional training method.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 13, 2008
Accession Number
ADA494910

Entities

People

  • Andrew Hanson

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Analysts
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Military Intelligence
  • Security
  • Training
  • United States

Readers

  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Systems Analysis and Design