The New Yorker is on to something. The nouns change, but the hustle endures.
Micah Zenko
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Somewhere between organizational and behavioral theory, national security, and curiosity.
The nefarious habit of providing information rather than analysis. Brilliant recent New Yorker cartoon by Barbara Smaller.
This recommendation to build a "Red Team Capability" in the Office of Policy Planning from the State Department's just-released, "After Action Review on Afghanistan" caught me eye. (Smart and resilient organizations do this proactively, rather than in reaction to a catastrophe.)
Full report is a must-read: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/State-AAR-AFG.pdf
UK Ministry of Defence always makes hacking sound fun, with its real-life profiles.
https://defencedigital.blog.gov.uk/2022/08/02/meet-the-hackers/
The CIA just declassified the results of a 1995 conference on the Agency's emergence during the Truman administration.
My favorite passage was this Truman quote (via Dick Neustadt), which I had never heard before. (p. 20)
For all the behavioralists and psychologists out there, two valentines from the website, Behavioral Scientist: https://behavioralscientist.org/tag/behavioralvalentines/
How can analysts make better predictive judgments? The new issue of the CIA's in-house journal (Studies in Intelligence) offers a five-step alternative analysis method for producing more accurate and useful predictive judgments--the Kinetic Predictive Analytic Technique (KPAT).
Much different than any other Structured Analytical Technique that I have come across.
