The Warning Solution: Intelligent Analysis in the Age of Information Overload

For the first time in human history, people have too much information. We are no longer swimming in information; we are drowning in it. How to think about and how to solve this problem are the subjects of this book.

Based on over 20 years of personal experience as an analyst, lawyer, accountant, linguist, area expert and military officer, this book outlines, in detail, models and techniques developed by the author and used by professional intelligence analysts -- techniques that rapidly cut through mounds of data and pull together the right pieces of information at the right time. It is the kind of analysis that warns the reader -- gives him or her time to do something about a crisis before it happens.

The Warning Solution is a unique book. No other book on information overload is as concise, as graphically intense or as practical. Most importantly, no other book successfully takes lessons learned from a lifetime of analysis and makes them easily accessible to the general reader.

Kristan J. Wheaton is a Foreign Area Officer for the US Army. He is currently serving as an Attaché in the Office of the Legal Counselor, US Embassy, The Hague where he works with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on war crimes issues. Prior to this posting he was the Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation at the US Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia. He has also served as the Chief of European Analysis in the Intelligence Directorate of the US European Command, as one of the first US Defense Liaison Officers to the Republic of Macedonia and as a Special Assistant to the Commander of Multinational Division North in Bosnia.

His publications include, among others, "Cultivating Croatia's Military" (NATO Review, Autumn 2000) and "How to Make an Embassy Work For You" (Competitive Intelligence Magazine, January-March, Vol. III, No. 1, 2000).