Anticipating Surprise: Analysis for Strategic Warning - Softcover

Grabo, Cynthia M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761829520 ISBN 13: 9780761829522

Publisher: University Press of America, 2004

Synopsis

Anticipating Surprise, originally written as a manual for training intelligence analysts during the Cold War, has been declassified and condensed to provide wider audiences with an inside look at intelligence gathering and analysis for strategic warning. Cynthia Grabo defines the essential steps in the warning process, examines distinctive ingredients of the analytic method of intelligence gathering, and discusses the guidelines for assessing the meaning of gathered information. Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, intelligence collection and analysis has been hotly debated. In this book, Grabo suggests ways of improving warning assessments that better convey warnings to policymakers and military commanders who are responsible for taking appropriate action to avert disaster.

About this title

About the Author:

Cynthia Grabo holds an MA from the University of Chicago. She worked as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government from 1942 to 1980. Ms. Grabo's awards include: the Defense Intelligence Agency's Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, the Central Intelligence Agency's Sherman Kent Award for outstanding contribution to the literature of intelligence, and the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0761829520
• ISBN 13: 9780761829522
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186