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Giangiuseppe Pili (2022) Deciphering intelligence analysis – The synthetic nature of the core intelligence function, Intelligence and National Security, DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2022.2041947

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ABSTRACT
Intelligence analysis is one of the most explored topics in intelligence studies. However, decoding its nature is still challenging. A unifying question must be considered: ‘Is intelligence analysis – analysis?’ Unfolding the problem leads to an extreme conclusion: intelligence analysis is a way to structure sensory data collection and reduction. It is, namely, synthesis. A systematic scrutiny of the general nature of analysis is considered to compare it to what intelligence analysis is intended to be. As it will turn out, intelligence analysis is much more synthesis – namely, structuring sensory data collection – than analysis per se, which is the main conclusion of the argument.

Pili, G., (2021), “Be coherent with yourself! A pluralistic approach to objectivity for intelligence analysis”, American Intelligence Journal, 38:1, 96-103.

Is objectivity possible in intelligence analysis? This long-lasting question can be answered by a new and pluralistic approach to objectivity within the s objectivity possible in intelligence analysis? This intelligence studies literature. If objectivity is possible, first, it must be defined. Second, it must be understood in terms of its attainability—in what way, how, and to what extent. A systematic analysis is offered to tackle the issue through the different angle offered by the philosophy of science, which already engaged in close issues such as politicization in science. Ultimately, the challenge is to fix the analyst’s duty in the face of his/her goal, which requires unfolding the implicit intelligence analyst’s worldview. Finally, balancing reality and ideals, the slogan of intelligence should be: “Be coherent with yourself; be coherent with what you know,” instead of “Speak truth to power.” A conceptual defense of this very idea will be explored systematically. Interested? Write me at scuolafilosofica_AT_gmail.com!

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Abstract
When we feel the deceitful sense of darkness of the present, we should look back to our enlightened past to study the human behavior in order to achieve a higher sense of understanding. Cyberspace is militarized from within and from without for clear political objectives, whose most important is the control of the laws of the cyberspace itself, namely the technical principles, the rules of the infrastructure and the legal standards that shape the cyber domain. The logic of the cyber competition could be traced back to the Roman armed border system and frontier: the limes. The armed frontier is not pacific and not entirely pacified because it is not the goal. The main current powers, like the Romans, want to project power and influence inside and outside their borders. There is no meaningful sense of peace inside the cyberspace as it was the case for the Roman territory. And then, looking back to the past in which Rome was falling, we should remember the Luttwak’s warning: “Once the empire was no longer sustained by the logic of collective security, it could only endure because of the unsustainable will of its rulers, and by men’s waning fear of the unknown”.