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A Tradecraft Primer: Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis Prepared by the US Government March 2009. This primer highlights Structured Analytic techniques some widely used in the private sector and academia, some unique to the intelligence profession. It is not a comprehensive overview of how intelligence officers conduct analysis. Rather, the primer highlights how Structured Analytic techniques can help one challenge judgments, identify mental mindsets, stimulate creativity, and manage uncertainty.
techniques are primarily aimed at making analytic arguments, assumptions, or intelligence gaps more transparent; contrarian . techniques explicitly challenge current thinking; and. imaginative thinking . techniques aim at developing new insights, different perspectives and/or develop alternative outcomes. In fact, many of the techniques will do ...
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